「全港無家者人口統計調查 2021」是由香港中文大學尤努斯社會事業中心聯同六間非政府機構合辦，包括：基督教關懷無家者協會、救世軍、香港社區組織協會、聖雅各福群會、同路舍及Mercy HK。

基由於疫情延續至2021年, 失業問題的影響亦繼續積累及發酵，有更多人士於2021年無家可歸。因此，我們再次進行全港無家者人口統計調查，以掌握現時香港無家者的數字、露宿原因、精神健康及經濟狀況，來倡議無家者政策及服務的改善。

This report is our third annual attempt to evaluate the well-being of older people in Hong Kong. This year’s findings are largely consistent with last year’s: long life expectancy, satisfaction with transportation systems and physical safety; but again the financial status, psychological well-being and social connectedness of older people in Hong Kong could be improved on. The findings highlight the need to build up social networks among older people and enhance their psychological health.

The Institute of Ageing has developed a new Index, the Hong Kong Elder Quality of Life (HKEQOL) Index, an extension of the Global AgeWatch Index to include indicators relating to the Age-Friendly City concept proposed by the World Health Organization. This is particularly relevant to the territory-wide Age-friendly City initiative supported by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust. The new HKEQOL Index aims to capture locally important determinants of well-being among Hong Kong older adults and monitor and evaluate local age-friendly interventions.

深水埗區中不單無家者的數目眾多，而露宿者集中的地方，如通州街臨時街市天橋底，更曾出現火警、鼠患、衛生環境差等問題，甚至無家者猝死的情況。這不但對露宿者造成威脅， 也影響附近居民的生活。在這些露宿者中亦有吸毒、患上精神病等狀況，令他們難於融入正常生活而處於長期露宿的境況。
基於上述的背景，深水埗區議會關注貧窮問題及少數族裔工作小組（下稱工作小組）於2017年發出邀請希望聘請機構進行露宿者研究， 由承辦機構透過研究了解深水埗區的露宿現象，從而向相關政府部門建議可行的處理方案。香港中文大學社會工作學系副教授黃洪及其研究團隊接受有關聘請進行是次「深水埗露宿者研究」，並提交本研究報告。

1) To understand the household expense of working families in Hong Kong.
2) To propose the implementation of the LW in Hong Kong so that workers can secure a normative living standard.
The estimated basic montly household expenditure was then converted into a standardised hourly LW rate by using census data to estimate the number of full-time equivalent workers per family as 1.74. The estimated net hourly rate of Living Wage is $54.7 (US$7.0). It was also suggested that CPI(A) is used to revise and update the standardised hourly LW rate.

“Homeless Outreach Population Estimation Hong Kong 2015” (hereafter: H.O.P.E. HK 2015) was a joint project between five local universities and four social welfare institutions, namely: City University of Hong Kong, Lingnan University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, The University of Hong Kong, Christian Concern for The Homeless Association, The Salvation Army, Society for Community Organization and St. James’ Settlement.
H.O.P.E. HK 2015 identified 1,614 homeless individuals in Hong Kong, between the night of 29 October and the dawn of 30 October 2015. 780 individuals, almost half of the total homeless population (48.3%) lived on streets, in parks, under flyovers and other public spaces. Another 256, about one sixth of the homeless population (15.9%) slept in 24-hour restaurants. The rest, 578 homeless individuals, about one third of the homeless population (35.8%) spent that night at temporary shelters and urban hostels. Of all 780 street sleepers, 689 of them were counted by volunteers on the night of survey and 91 empty bed spaces were identified. As social workers of the community organizations confirmed that these empty bed spaces had been used by homeless individuals within one month prior to the survey, they were included in the total homeless population.

The ‘Low-income Working Family Allowance’ (LIFA) Scheme was launched on 3 May 2016, when the Working Family Allowance Office opened for application and assessment process. According to the webpage of Working Family Allowance Office, the objectives of the LIFA Scheme are to encourage self-reliance and ease intergenerational poverty. It aims to alleviate the economic burden of the low-income working families, to encourage them to remain in employment and to keep them from falling into the CSSA safety net, and to promote upward mobility for the children and youth of these families and break the vicious cycle of intergenerational poverty.

This research aims to evaluate whether the LIFA Scheme can achieve its planned policy outcomes, and to understand the impacts of LIFA Scheme on the quality of life of the low-income working families. It was funded by the Public Policy Research (PPR) Funding Scheme of the Central Policy Unit of the HKSAR government. It employed both quantitative and qualitative methods to collect multiple sources of data from different perspectives to scrutinize the impacts of LIFA Scheme on the low-income working families.

This study uses both quantitative (survey) and qualitative (case study and focus group) methods to measure and assess the impacts of introducing SMW on labour market conditions and on the quality of life of three vulnerable groups (people with disabilities, newly arrived women, and CSSA recipients)in Hong Kong.
It was found that the overall positive effects are greater than the negative effects. However, the level of positive effects on the vulnerable groups is lower than that on low-income group (control group). Also, there have been significant improvements in the lives of the lowincome group since SMW was implemented.

「職業安全健康局 」 為協助僱主和管理階層與僱員共同携手，建設年長僱員友善的、健康和安全的工作環境， 以讓年長僱員發揮所長、貢獻自己，並提升機構和公司的生產力，遂於二零零七年委託香港中文大學社會工作學 系進行香港年長僱員的職業安全健康的研究，並發展一套適合香港不同行業使用的 促進 年長僱員職業安全健 康的管理策略和工作方法。 這也 是香港第一次就年長僱員的職業安全健康狀況所進行的研究和顧問服務。
年長僱員面對著種種物理性、化學性、生物性和工效性的危害。本研究發現職業和行業乃危險環境的重要源頭。 研究也發現有較多55-64歲的年長僱員在粉塵/煙霧的環境工作。而從事工藝及有關工作的年長在職人士多處於噪音、 多塵的環境，並需進行手動操作的處理。也有較多機台及機器年長操作員與裝配員在高噪音的場所，進行重覆動作及 連續姿勢與位置的工序。

This study is to identify profiles, trends, behaviors, and characteristics of drug abusers who are ethnic minorities in Hong Kong, with special emphasis on high risk behaviors such as needle sharing. The second ojectives is to identify the social consequences associated with their drug abuse, including its relationship with family and involvement in criminal activities; lastly, the study intended to examine the barriers for them to receive services such as language barrier, discrimination, and stigma experienced; and to assess the service needs of these abusers.

「手作仔同盟」的服務對象是年齡介乎14-18 歲，中四或以下的青少年。目標是希望透過多元化的介入手法，以適切 青少年多樣化之成長為就業需要，使更有效讓學員透過計劃肯定自我能力及信心、掌握團隊合作精神及技巧、提升個人在勞工市場上的競爭力，及確立個人未 來方向這四大目標，在裝備青少年面對就業的挑戰的同時，亦擴闊他們的生活經驗，促進個人的自信與成長。

小童群益會特委托香港中文大學社會工作學系助理教授黃洪博士，對本計劃進行一評估報告，以檢討計劃成效，並為日後相類似的服務，作出建議。研究發現 手作仔計劃透過建立學員的職志，使他們能於工作中找到一個較隱定的人生發展方向，這使他從在工作中，不同方面得到的成就中，得到 一種生命為自己所掌握的體驗，從而提昇他們的自我效能。另一方面，當學員有越高的自我效能感，他們便會有更大的信心去面對工作，從而會在各項工作態度 的指標中，有更好的表現。

The target of a new integrated service will be extended from ‘street sleepers’ to ‘homeless people’, that is include those ex-street sleepers, who still live in temporary accommodation or those just temporary enter a permanent accommodation with high risks of relapse by SWD in 2001. Secondly, the main objectives of the services will include 're-housing' as well as 'homelessness prevention' as to lower the relapse rate. Thirdly, new emergency support service will be offered to the ‘new’ ‘marginal’ homeless people, as to prevent them from becoming long-term homeless people.
Owing to the experimental and innovative nature of pilot services for the new marginal homeless people, and the need for integrating the pilot and existing services, it is essential to develop a systematic, scientific and knowledge-generating research about the effectiveness of the pilot and existing services. Under such background, our research team is commissioned by the SWD to conduct an evaluative research on the pilot and existing services for the homeless people in Hong Kong.

本研究目的有三。一透過問卷調查香港露宿者的數目、地域分佈、類型及露宿原因，以便有準確的數據，制定相關的政策及服務標準。二.透過個案的訪問及研究，深入了解露宿者露宿的成因，了解現時服務及政策的不足及他們與社會接觸的情況。三. 透過出版書籍及光碟，對社區人士尤其是青少年進行社區教育。出版上述個案研究及結果，使他們對露宿者有更深的了解，從而關懷及接納露宿者。

本是次研究便是第二項有關邊緣勞工的質性研究，在這研究中我們會集中分析邊緣勞工的具體生活處境，其職業變動的因素以及邊緣勞工對政府及有關政策 的觀感，從而對政府建議一系列可推行的政策措施，改善邊緣勞工的生活及處境。
另一方面，我們亦探索邊緣勞工的個人、家庭及社區網絡的變化、面對社會排斥的狀況、我們特別關心社會資本的弱化、社區經濟的變遷及重建的可能性， 從而探討未來在香港滅貧的路向及方法，並期望這能引起其他非政府機構對「社區經濟發展」作出關注討論及實踐。

「邊緣勞工」是指那些被排拒在勞動力市場邊緣的勞工。這些勞工基於年齡、性別、族群及工種等因素而未能進入較穩定的核心勞動力市場。邊緣勞工在香港一直存在。但過去由於邊緣勞工仍然可以透過成為小商販、小廠戶或升職等上升途徑成為主流勞工，邊緣勞工興主流勞工的分隔並不明顯。但自90 年代起， 香港的就業階梯出現了比以往更明顯的分隔現象，工人的階層向上流動的可能性，比起40 至80 年代大大降低，而成為失業、半失業者及貧窮勞工的向下流動機會則大大增加。因此，相對過去來說，現時邊緣勞工在社會地層分佈上有了更清淅的界線，工人亦已比以往更自覺到自己的邊緣處境。。
研究顯示邊緣勞工的數目由 1996 年的45 萬增加至1999 年的64 萬，四年期增幅高達45%。在1999 年，每五名勞動人口中，便有一人是邊緣勞工。由於官方的統計並不計算女性及年長勞工隱性失業的情況，有關數字經己是保守的估 計，實際邊緣勞工的數目將會更多。從邊緣勞工在九十年代末期的大幅增長的跡象顯示，這些邊緣勞工有機會逐步固定形成一個新的階層。