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The Homelessness Industry : A Critique of US Social Policy / Elizabeth Beck, Pamela C. Twiss.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (287 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781626377974
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.5/9280973 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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