Reimagining Homelessness

For Policy and Practice
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4473-5351-5
Verlag: Policy Press

Buch, Englisch, 128 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 157 g

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. The number of people experiencing homelessness is rising in the majority of advanced western economies. Responses to these rising numbers are variable but broadly include elements of congregate emergency accommodation, long-term supported accommodation, survivalist services and degrees of coercion. It is evident that these policies are failing.

Using contemporary research, policy and practice examples, this book uses the Irish experience to argue that we need to urgently reimagine homelessness as a pattern of residential instability and economic precariousness regularly experienced by marginal households. Bringing to light stark evidence, it proves that current responses to homelessness only maintain or exacerbate this instability rather than arrest it and provides a robust evidence base to reimagine how we respond to homelessness.

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Sullivan, Eoin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction;

Rediscovering Homelessness;

Responding to Homelessness;

Reacting to Homelessness;

Reimagining Homelessness;

Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Eoin O’Sullivan is a Professor in Social Policy at Trinity College Dublin.