Reimagining Homelessness (Paperback)

Eoin O'Sullivan

ISBN 10: 144735351X / ISBN 13: 9781447353515

Published by Bristol University Press, Bristol, 2020

About this Item

Paperback. Reimagining Homelessness is a comprehensive, authoritative but highly accessible exploration of housing policy and practice in Ireland, arguing that the key drivers of homelessness need to be reimagined in popular consciousness in order to address the problem at its roots. The number of people experiencing homelessness is rising in the majority of advanced western economies. Responses to these rising numbers are variable but broadly include elements of congregate emergency accommodation, long-term supported accommodation, survivalist services and degrees of coercion. It is evident that these policies are failing.Using contemporary research, policy and practice examples, this book uses the Irish experience to argue that we need to urgently reimagine homelessness as a pattern of residential instability and economic precariousness regularly experienced by marginal households. Bringing to light stark evidence, it proves that current responses to homelessness only maintain or exacerbate this instability rather than arrest it and provides a radical blueprint for future policy. Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Bringing to light the most contemporary research, policy and practice, this book presents stark evidence from Irish experience to argue that we need to urgently reimagine the root causes of homelessness and provides a robust evidence base to reimagine how we respond to homelessness. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reimagining Homelessness (Paperback)
• Publisher: Bristol University Press, Bristol
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 144735351X
• ISBN 13: 9781447353515
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. The number of people experiencing homelessness is rising in the majority of advanced western economies. Responses to these rising numbers are variable but broadly include elements of congregate emergency accommodation, long-term supported accommodation, survivalist services and degrees of coercion. It is evident that these policies are failing.

Using contemporary research, policy and practice examples, this book uses the Irish experience to argue that we need to urgently reimagine homelessness as a pattern of residential instability and economic precariousness regularly experienced by marginal households. Bringing to light stark evidence, it proves that current responses to homelessness only maintain or exacerbate this instability rather than arrest it and provides a robust evidence base to reimagine how we respond to homelessness.

About the Author

Eoin O’Sullivan is a Professor in Social Policy at Trinity College Dublin.