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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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The making of the homelessness industry -- Homelessness today and its historical roots -- Competing values: neoliberalism and social justice -- From social problem to psychiatry -- Early federal policy and the fight for McKinney -- Implementation in a hostile context:the first two years of the McKinney Act -- Services, not justice -- From managing to ending homelessness -- The present continuing quest for justice. |
| 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 polic. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Homelessness -- United States -- History.
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Homelessness -- Government policy -- United States.
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Homeless persons -- Services for -- United States.
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United States -- Social policy.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. |
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Homeless persons -- Services for |
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Homelessness |
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Homelessness -- Government policy |
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Social policy |
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United States |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Added Author |
Twiss, Pamela, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Beck, Elizabeth. Homelessness industry. Boulder, Colorado : Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., [2018] 9781626377417 (DLC) 2018020916 (OCoLC)1035319529 |
| ISBN |
9781626377974 (electronic bk.) |
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1626377979 (electronic bk.) |
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9781626377417 |
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1626377413 |
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