Homelessness and Social Policy (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Burrows, Roger; Quilgars, Deborah; Pleace, Nicholas

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Who are the homeless in Britain today? How does their homelessness occur? Contributors review theoretical and legal conceptualisations of homelessness, analyse the statistics and evaluate the policy responses so far.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134734122
• Artikelnr.: 38401494

Autorenporträt

Roger Burrows is Assistant Director and Nicholas Pleace and Deborah Quilgars are Research Fellows at the Centre for Housing Policy, University of York

Inhaltsangabe

Preface John Greve 1. Homelessness in Contemporary Britain:
Conceptualisation and Measurement Nicholas Pleace, Deborah Quilgars and
Roger Burrows 2. Homelessness and the Law Stuart Lowe 3. Theorising
Homelessness: Contemporary Sociological and Feminist Perspectives Joanne
Neale 4. The Social Distribution of the Experience of Homelessness Roger
Burrows 5. The Characteristics of Single Homeless People in England Peter
Kemp 6. Mortgage Arrears, Mortgage Possessions and Homelessness Janet Ford
7. Soldiering On? Theorising Homelessness Amongst Ex-Servicemen Paul Higate
8. The Housing Needs of Ex-Prisoners Jane Carlisle 9. The Health of Single
Homelessness People Wendy Bines 10. Health, Homelessness and Access to
Health Care Services in London Nicholas Pleace and Deborah Quilgars 11.
Rehousing Single Homeless People Nicholas Pleace 12. Opening Doors in the
Private Rented Sector: Developments in Assistance with Access Julie Rugg
13. The Capacity of the Private Rented Sector to House Homeless Households
Mark Bevan and David Rhodes 14. Hostels: A Useful Policy and Practice
Response? Joanne Neale 15. Addressing the Problem of Youth Homelessness and
Unemployment: the Contribution of Foyers Deborah Quilgars and Isobel
Anderson 16. Working Together to Help Homeless People: an Examination of
Inter-Agency Themes Christine Oldman References Name index Subject index