TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beck,Elizabeth
AU  - Twiss,Pamela C.
TI  - The Homelessness Industry: A Critique of US Social Policy 
SN  - 9781626377974
U1  - 362.5/9280973 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Boulder : 
PB  - Lynne Rienner Publishers, 
KW  - Homeless persons
KW  - Services for
KW  - United States
KW  - Homeless persons-Services for-United States
KW  - Homelessness
KW  - Government policy
KW  - History
KW  - Homelessness-Government policy-United States
KW  - Homelessness-United States-History
KW  - United States-Social policy
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; 1 The Making of the Homelessness Industry --; 2 Homelessness Today and Its Historical Roots --; 3 Competing Values: Neoliberalism and Social Justice --; 4 From Social Problem to Psychiatry --; 5 Early Federal Policy and the Fight for the McKinney Act --; 6 Implementation in a Hostile Context: The First Two Years of the McKinney Act --; 7 Services, Not Justice --; 8 From Managing to Ending Homelessness --; 9 The Continuing Quest for Justice --; List of Acronyms --; References --; Index --; About the Book; restricted access
N2  - Homelessness once was considered an aberration. Today it is a normalized feature of US society. It is also, argue Elizabeth Beck and Pamela Twiss, an industry: the embrace of neoliberal policies and piecemeal efforts to address the problem have ensured a steady production of homeless people, as well as a plethora of disjointed social services that often pathologize individuals instead of housing them. Tracing the transformation of homelessness from being a social-justice issue to one with solutions based on medical models and zero-sum-games analyses, Beck and Twiss explore how government policies and practices have served to shape our limited response to the problem. Equally important, they consider how a more just, human-rights-based approach might be effected
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781626377974
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781626377974
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781626377974/original
ER  -