Perfil actual de las personas sin hogar en el municipio de Madridevolución, características y tendencias

Abstract

This Doctoral Thesis is based on the hypothesis that the current economic and labor situation in Spain has led to a change in the characteristics of homeless, which means that new profiles are emerging. These new profiles represent a modification in the type of users that make use of the network of resources for homeless people of the municipality of Madrid. This could be due to the fact that the risk factors that currently determine the situation of homelessness have varied, being oriented mainly to factors derived from the current Spanish situation.Therefore we proposed as objectives to study the current characteristics of homeless people in the municipality of Madrid, as well as to evaluate the changes produced in the characteristics of this population, finding out the risk factors that nowadays derive a person to the homelessness.To reach these objectives we contacted with Samur Social, a service of the City of Madrid, who gave us the raw data, extracted from the questionnaires of the Homeless People Count of the municipality of Madrid from 2006 to 2016, with a sample of 4,498 people. To obtain the data, a descriptive and inferential statistic was performed. The data were divided into 7 blocks that analyzed sociodemographic data, life histories, stressful life events, employment and economic resources, health, use of services and perception of the situation and future prospects...