Who are the homeless in Britain today? How does their homelessness occur? This text reviews theoretical and legal conceptualizations of homelessness, analyzes the statistics and evaluates the policy responses to the problem so far. Editor(s): Burrows, Roger; Pleace, Nicholas; Quilgars, Deborah (all of University of York). Num Pages: 284 pages, 33 tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFFB; JPQB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408. . 1997. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Homelessness and Social Policy
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 1997
Language: English
ISBN 10: 041515457X
ISBN 13: 9780415154574
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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The problem of homelessness is deeply emblematic of the sort of society Britain has become. What other social phenomena could better epitomise the end of modernity than our seeming inability to adequately respond to the most basic needs - shelter, warmth, food - of substantial numbers of our 'citizens'? Homelessness and Social Policy offers a dispassionate analysis of the problem of homelessness and the policy responses it has so far invoked.
By reviewing theoretical and legal conceptualisations of homelessness and presenting extensive statistical analyses, this book considers the impact of the experience of homelessness and the policy responses. Homelessness and Social Policy will prove to be invaluable to students of social and public policy, health studies, housing studies and sociology.

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Roger Burrows is Assistant Director and Nicholas Pleace and Deborah Quilgars are Research Fellows at the Centre for Housing Policy, University of York

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