Reimagining Homelessness
For Policy and Practice
1st Edition
Published on 15. April 2020
128 pages
978-1-4473-5354-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bristol University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Not illustrated
ISBN-13
978-1-4473-5354-6 (9781447353546)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447353546
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Book
04/2020
1st Edition
Policy Press
€22.80
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Person
Eoin O'Sullivan is a Professor in Social Policy at Trinity College Dublin.
Content
Introduction;
Rediscovering Homelessness;
Responding to Homelessness;
Reacting to Homelessness;
Reimagining Homelessness;
Conclusion.
Rediscovering Homelessness;
Responding to Homelessness;
Reacting to Homelessness;
Reimagining Homelessness;
Conclusion.
