The Homelessness Industry : : A Critique of US Social Policy / / Elizabeth Beck, Pamela C. Twiss.
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...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (287 p.) |
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Other title: | 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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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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781626377974 9783110783544 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9781626377974 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Elizabeth Beck, Pamela C. Twiss. |