Reimagining homelessness : for policy and practice / Eoin O'Sullivan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Sullivan, Eoin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homelessness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iv, 133 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Reimagining Homelessness

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England : Policy Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Recollecting homelessness

Responding to homelessness

Recording homelessness

Reacting to homelessness

Rethinking homelessness

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

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ISBN:

1-4473-5354-4

OCLC:

1150151709