Articles & Research
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH This article presents a case study that explores the creation of value by a social enterprise, Furniture Bank, for its stakeholders. The study is undertaken using the social return on investment framework....
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH This paper, jointly produced by EndFurniturePoverty.Org and the Human City Institute, is a first step in EndFurniturePoverty.Org’s Furnishing Homes, Furnishing Lives campaign to promote furnished tenancies in the social housing sector. The paper...
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH This study examined the types of housing features considered important to a sample of homeless persons diagnosed with a mental illness and/or substance use disorder and the relationship between the degree to...
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH Permanent supportive housing provides safe, stable housing for people with mental and substance use disorders who are homeless or disabled. This article describes permanent supportive housing and reviews research. Key elements of...
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH One of the best and only longitudinal studies that illustrates the impact of good furnishing support services through a furniture bank. There are now 3.8 million households in the UK living in...
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH The book also presents eight case studies of Housing First in Canada, exploring not just the results of its implementation, but how different communities made the shift from ‘treatment as usual’ to...
Carbon Calculator (Spain) In Spain there is a social and environmental organization looking at the opportunities and benefits of reuse in the country. To help quantify the carbon impact they provided a handy calculator. Calculate...
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is being promoted as a key market based instrument to help Member States implement EU waste legislation, including application of the waste hierarchy. However, little attention has been...
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH The purpose of this report is to explore furniture provision in Guelph and Wellington, the potential need for a Furniture Bank and propose recommendations for moving forward. This report has been developed...
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH Looking at all sources of furniture reuse in the UK it does quantify furniture bank operations. Furniture Re-use Organisations (FRO) are social enterprises or charities that receive items (predominantly furniture and large...
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH In 2009, WRAP published Meeting the UK Climate Challenge: The Contribution of Resource Efficiency. This showed that one of the best resource efficiency strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions was REUSE. WRAP...
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH Ensuring homeless persons have adequate furniture is essential if they are to maintain their new tenancies and avoid repeat homelessness. This has been widely recognised in the past but there is a...
