Housing the Homeless and Poor : : New Partnerships among the Private, Public, and Third Sectors / / ed. by George Fallis, Alex Murphy.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Banting, Keith G.,; Carter, Tom,; Fallis, George,; Jay, William,; Keyes, Langley,; Mcafee, Ann,; Mishra, Ramesh,; Murray, Alex,; Wolfe, Jeanne M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Fallis, George,; Murphy, Alex,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; 1. Introduction --; 2. Homelessness: The People --; 3. The Urban Housing Market --; 4. The Collapse of the Welfare Consensus? The Welfare State in the 1980s --; 5. Social Housing in a Divided State --; 6. The Private-Sector Role in Low-Income Housing --; 7. The Revolving Door: Third-Sector Organizations and the Homeless --; 8. The Municipal Role in Housing the Homeless and Poor --; 9. Reflecting on the Problems and Possibilities --; Appendixes --; 1. Vienna Recommendations On Shelter And Urban Development (1986) --; 2. Symposium Recommendations On The Private-Sector Role --; Symposium Participants --; Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442675889; 9783110490947
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442675889
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by George Fallis, Alex Murphy.

Multiversities are sprawling conglomerates that provide liberal undergraduate, graduate, and professional education. As well-springs of innovation and ideas, these universities represent the core of society's research enterprise. Multiversities, Ideas, and Democracy forcibly argues that, in the contemporary world, multiversities need to be conceptualized in a new way, that is, not just as places of teaching and research, but also as fundamental institutions of democracy.Building upon the history of universities, George Fallis discusses how the multiversity is a distinctive product of the later twentieth century and has become an institution of centrality and power. He examines five characteristics of our age - the constrained welfare state, the information technology revolution, postmodern thought, commercialization, and globalization - and in each case explains how the dynamic of multiversity research alters societal circumstances, leading to the alteration of the institution itself and creating challenges to its own survival. The character of our age demands reappraisal of the multiversity, Fallis argues, in order to safeguard them from so-called 'mission drift.' Writing from a multi-national perspective, this study establishes how similar ideas are shaping multiversities across the Anglo-American world.Ultimately, Multiversities, Ideas, and Democracy seeks to uncover the ethos of the multiversity and to hold such institutions accountable for their contribution to democratic life. It will appeal to anyone interested in the role of education in society.