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Social work, housing, and homelessness / Robert Hagan and Anya Ahmed.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hagan, Robert (Lecturer in social work), author.
- Ahmed, Anya, author.
- Series:
- Student social work
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homelessness--Great Britain.
- Homelessness.
- Homeless persons--Services for--Great Britain.
- Homeless persons.
- Housing--Great Britain.
- Housing.
- Social service--Great Britain.
- Social service.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 245 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Why social work, housing, and homelessness?
- Part One - Housing choices, options, and limitations
- Chapter One – A place to call home: Where do we live and what does it mean?
- Chapter Two – Property, land, and shelter: Commodity or right / with Steve Iafrati
- Chapter Three – Cohesive communities and segregated estates: Values and challenges / Eve Blezard, with the authors
- Chapter Four – Housing precarity and disadvantage today: Adjusting service provision to tackle injustice and new risks / Steve Iafrati, with the authors
- Part Two - Homeless experiences and specific housing needs
- Chapter Five – Homelessness and single people: Supporting routes to shelter and security
- Chapter Six – Women, children, families, and homelessness: Advocating for and maintaining family security
- Chapter Seven – After care: where now? Care leavers and other young people at risk of rootlessness
- Chapter Eight – Adults with disabilities: Options, transitions, and new beginnings
- Chapter Nine – Older people: Autonomy, restrictions, and care
- Conclusion - How now should social work respond to housing?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 12, 2025).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Hagan, Robert Social work, housing, and homelessness
- ISBN:
- 9781003434696
- 100343469X
- 104032620X
- 9781040326237
- 1040326234
- 9781040326206
- Publisher Number:
- 90104360093
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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