Homelessness: A Critical Introduction Parsell Cameron
Homelessness: A Critical Introduction Parsell Cameron Homelessness is a punishing condition that inflicts unquestionable harm on those who experience it. To be homeless is to face daily…
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Homelessness: A Critical Introduction Parsell Cameron
Homelessness is a punishing condition that inflicts unquestionable harm on those who experience it. To be homeless is to face daily victimization, to be a recipient of someone else's care and to have autonomy taken away. It is also a social problem that starkly lays bare deep societal failure.As this book shows, society - along with the public policy measures intended to address it - treats being homeless as an identity, casting those who experience homelessness as fundamentally different from 'us'.
Our first task in this pursuit is to confront the fact that homelessness is a relatively predictable phenomenon that disproportionately impacts people who are failed by society in myriad ways. Cameron Parsell shows that we have at our disposal the knowledge and momentum to demonstrably reduce and even end homelessness. We must then respond to the problem in ways that