Research methodology Assignment pdf

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction.........................................................................................................................2
Background of the study.........................................................................................................2
Aims and Objectives...............................................................................................................3
Research questions.................................................................................................................3
2. Literature Review...............................................................................................................3
3. Research methodology........................................................................................................6
4. Data analysis and findings.....................................................................................................7
5. Conclusion............................................................................................................................14
References................................................................................................................................15

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1. Introduction
The product of various social, financial and health influences can be defined as
homelessness. Specific factors such as inadequate learning, whether someone is studying,
familiar or domestic abuse, mental health conditions and injury, depression, and drug abuse is
the potential reason of homelessness for youth in the Australia. Increased housing risk often
leads to socioeconomic causes, including the lack of sufficient wages or insufficient access to
appropriate and accessible housing. A significant ongoing subject of homelessness analysis is
how individual and collective risk factors affect the vulnerability and perception of a person.
SHS delivers programmes in Australia to help people at risk or suffering from homelessness,
targeted at monitoring and treatment response, post-crisis and emergency support.
Government support for the procurement of housing and personal facilities is available to
organisations. The scale and type of assistance given differ. However, now, it is important to
conduct a research for getting an idea regarding youth homelessness in Australia and in order
to understand how policies are contributing to the process of managing the issue. By
considering this matter, the research topic has been selected here. In the following section,
the background is going to be provided.
Background of the study
Housing can be regarded as a focus of public health (Clifford, Wilson & Harris, 2019.
Hence, it is justified to do a strategy regarding such an important issue, homelessness. Almost
one fourth of the homeless have a substantial mental disorder. Nearly half of these people
struggle with violence and dependency. Unlike common opinion, many homelessness people
with significant mental disorders are able to accept care and programmes according to the
National Alliance for homeless people it has been stated that extension services are most
effective because individuals have a trustworthy connection with the people they want to
support. Simple disparities in the situation between native homelessness and other types of
homelessness in Australia are a result of a legacy of contacts that has oppressed much native
population in their own country and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI). As per the viewpoint of
Kuskoff (2018), the powers of colonisation, which dispersed the aboriginal people,
irrevocably altered their life and greatly affected ties to their country of origin. Present paths
to aboriginal homelessness illustrate how these colonising movements continue to affect
people's lives actively and indirectly.

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More than 116.000 inhabitants were counted in Australia on a census night of 2016, 58%
were male, 21% were Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Australian, between 25 and 34
years of age and 20% were classified (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2019).
Roughly 51,000 of these people (44 per cent) lived in extreme homes. More than 21,000 (18
percent) lived in assisted housing and 8200 people had rough sleeping accommodation.
However, the problem related to youth homelessness in Australia is considerable. On Youth
Homelessness matters day, National commissioner of Children Megal Mitchel cites the figure
of census and it was showing that In Australia, 28,756 children and young people are
homeless. These people are under 12 years of age. By considering this kind of statistical data,
it has been possible to understand that the youth homelessness-related problem in Australia
and it is truly important to find out how policies are working to reduce or mitigate the policy.
It is also very important to find out the gap of the policies for future improvements.
Aims and Objectives
The aim of the research is to find out the effectiveness of policies in regard to the process of
managing youth homelessness-related issues in Australia. The objectives of the research
study are as follows:
 To find out the effectiveness of Australian homelessness-related policies in managing
the problem related to youth homelessness
 To find out how the youth homelessness-related issues are being managed in Australia
through the implementation of proper policies
 To find out the process to mitigate the issue by removing policy gap and improving
the important aspects of the policies
Research questions
RQ1: How the issues related to homelessness in Australian youth are being handled through
the implementation of proper policies?
RQ2: How effective the Australian homelessness-related policies are in reducing the rate of
youth homelessness and how the policy-related gaps can be mitigated?
2. Literature Review
According to Watson & Cuervo (2017), around 10.3 million renters in 2012 were highly
poor and simultaneously, these individuals found only 5.8 million units accessible. In