Modern homelessness: a reference handbook
Overview: Focusing on the last decade, Modern Homelessness: A Reference Handbook examines the issue in the United States and in other nations that have adopted new strategies to address homelessness-and achieved notable results in preventing and ending it. The handbook covers the unprecedented reductions first announced in 2007 and the crucial shifts in strategy and investment, and the results that brought them about. These fundamental changes are analyzed to identify the factors that proved mo…
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- Full title :Modern homelessness : a reference handbook / Mary Ellen Hombs ; foreword by Philip F. Mangano.
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Overview: Focusing on the last decade, Modern Homelessness: A Reference Handbook examines the issue in the United States and in other nations that have adopted new strategies to address homelessness-and achieved notable results in preventing and ending it. The handbook covers the unprecedented reductions first announced in 2007 and the crucial shifts in strategy and investment, and the results that brought them about. These fundamental changes are analyzed to identify the factors that proved most effective in altering the national and local dialogue and response relative to this daunting issue. In addition to a brief history of homelessness in contemporary times, the handbook examines key developments of the past decade in research, policy, housing models, and service delivery that have been shown to decrease homelessness. These include active partnership among the governments of the United States, Canada, England, Australia, New Zealand, and others that moved the discussion in a new direction. The story is brought up to date with a consideration of the effects of the 2008 economic crisis.
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- Publication Date:©2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):ABC-Clio
- Place of Publication:Santa Barbara, Calif
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:xvi, 289 pages ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781598845365, 1598845365, 9781598845372, 1598845373
- oclc:ocn669750076
- LC Classification:HV4493
- Dewey Decimal:362.5
Table of Contents
Foreword / Philip F Mangano -- 1: Background And History: -- Introduction -- What changed in the United States? -- Developing policy and investment with data -- Partnership, investment, and innovation -- New federal funding approaches -- Identifying and adopting innovation -- Unprecedented reductions in homelessness -- Research and resources for homeless populations -- Background to the early response to homelessness -- Recent issues in federal programs -- International developments -- Other European action -- Australia's national plan -- Canada's national partnering strategy -- References -- 2: Problems, Controversies, And Solutions: -- Introduction -- Defining and measuring homelessness: a new debate -- Increasing resources, prioritizing populations -- What about poverty? -- How many people are homeless? -- Ten-year plans: rhetoric, restrictions, or results? -- Where are the resources to prevent and end homelessness? -- Federal spending on homelessness -- Mainstream resources -- What about prevention? -- Discharge into homelessness from other systems -- Homelessness and legal issues -- Civil rights -- Siting homeless housing and the "not in my backyard" problem -- References -- …
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