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