A01=Gerald Daly
Affordable Housing
Author_Gerald Daly
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Chronic
Civil Society
CMHC
deinstitutionalisation effects
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Emergency Shelters
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Health Care For The Homeless
Homeless Individuals
Homeless Persons
hotels
housing
housing insecurity
individuals
international homelessness policy comparison
Literal Homelessness
Non-profit Housing Corporations
people
Permanent Housing
policy analysis homelessness
Private Rental
Professional Care Givers
Self-help Housing
shelter
Shelter Beds
Single Room Occupancy
Single Room Occupancy Units
social exclusion research
Social Housing
Soup Kitchens
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Transitional Housing
United States
urban marginalisation
voluntary sector interventions
welfare
Welfare Hotels
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415120296
- Weight: 498g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 08 Aug 1996
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The causes of homelessness are disputed by both Right and Left. But, few would argue that life on the streets is anything other than dangerous and debilitating.
Unemployment, deinstitutionalisation, abuse in the home are among the stories the homeless tell. Voluntary organisations point to the failure of emergency shelters and food banks, the cut-backs in social programmes and the severe shortage of affordable housing. On the international scale, the changing global system has placed new demands on the economies of Europe and north America which have impacted on resources, employment and even political will.
This book is the first comprehensive international study of homelessness. The author argues that the category of the homeless must itself be broadened, to encompass those chronically without shelter to those in immediate risk of dispossession, if homelessness is to be tackled effectively (before and after it happens) by public policy, voluntary organisations and the individuals themselves.
Gerald Daly is Professor in the Faculty of environmental Studies at York University, Canada. He has worked with housing agencies and non-profit groups and has published widely on housing, homelessness and comparative planning.
