Homelessness: Exploring the New Terrain

HOMELESSNESS......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
Notes on contributors......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Introduction......Page 12
The uncertain dimensions of the problem......Page 13
Explaining the new homelessness......Page 14
Responding to homelessness......Page 18
The scope of the book......Page 19
Conclusion......Page 22
2. The new landscape of precariousness......Page 28
Precariousness and stability as multidimensional phenomena......Page 37
Precariousness and the British housing market......Page 39
The new landscape of oppression......Page 43
Concluding comments......Page 44
3. Homelessness, citizenship and social exclusion......Page 48
Citizenship and social exclusion......Page 49
Homelessness: a thing of the past......Page 51
Redrawing the boundaries of citizenship: risk, insecurity and the active citizen......Page 54
Homelessness and the entrepreneurial city......Page 58
Conclusion......Page 64
Introduction......Page 72
Rurality and homelessness......Page 73
Cultures of rurality and homelessness......Page 77
Rural connections......Page 83
Conclusions......Page 87
Introduction......Page 92
Women and homelessness: exploring the past......Page 93
Definitions and meanings of home and homelessness......Page 95
The specificity of women’s homelessness......Page 99
Towards a new social imaginary and new strategies......Page 105
Introduction......Page 112
Meanings and impact......Page 113
A model of exclusion......Page 114
Experiential diversity......Page 119
Institutional frameworks, behaviour and responses......Page 126
Conclusions......Page 128
Introduction......Page 134
The homeless population: crime, victimisation and the meaning of homelessness......Page 135
The Charing Cross Homeless Unit......Page 139
The Unit, the reduction of rough sleeping and ‘zero-tolerance’......Page 142
The Unit, care and welfare: a police force for the homeless?......Page 146
The Homeless Unit and ‘zero-tolerance’......Page 148
Conclusion......Page 159
Introduction......Page 172
1996 Housing Act, Part VII: definitions and ideologies......Page 176
The judicial approach......Page 178
Making an example out of the paedophile......Page 180
Homelessness assessments: the salience of housing need......Page 187
Conclusion......Page 190
Introduction......Page 198
A slippery concept......Page 199
The 1996 Housing Act......Page 201
Meanings and understandings......Page 202
What the statistics show......Page 207
Updating the statistics......Page 211
The chronically homeless: the missing dimension......Page 213
Why older people lost their home......Page 219
Responding to older homelessness: a role for surplus sheltered stock......Page 223
Conclusion......Page 225
10. Homelessness in Russia:the scope of the problem and the remedies in place......Page 230
Defining and managing homelessness......Page 232
Homelessness among women......Page 239
Women and the issue of concealed homelessness......Page 241
Homelessness among children......Page 244
Conclusion: is there a way forward?......Page 246
Introduction......Page 250
The need for multiagency working......Page 251
The nature of multiagency working: problems and opportunities......Page 253
Bristol’s experience: problems and solutions......Page 255
How Bristol did it: the role of key players......Page 257
The role of the private sector......Page 260
The impact of different professional backgrounds and organisational cultures......Page 261
The impact of resource issues......Page 264
Costs and benefits......Page 265
The importance of power relationships between agencies......Page 266
How effective are the Bristol services in assisting single homeless people?......Page 268
Conclusions: the strengths and limitations of multiagency working......Page 272
The context of poverty and social exclusion in Europe......Page 278
The context of homelessness in Europe......Page 279
Services for the homeless in Europe......Page 280
European policy context......Page 282
Toward a model......Page 283
Normalisation model......Page 284
Tiered model......Page 290
Staircase model......Page 293
Discussion......Page 298
Index......Page 304