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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| Place / Publishing House: | Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of 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