The homelessness industry :: a critique of US social policy /

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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Hauptverfasser: Beck, Elizabeth (VerfasserIn), Twiss, Pamela (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Boulder, Colorado : Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., [2018]
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781626377974
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