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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Beck, Elizabeth (Autor), Twiss, Pamela (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder, Colorado : Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., [2018]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a The making of the homelessness industry -- Homelessness today and its historical roots -- Competing values: neoliberalism and social justice -- From social problem to psychiatry -- Early federal policy and the fight for McKinney -- Implementation in a hostile context:the first two years of the McKinney Act -- Services, not justice -- From managing to ending homelessness -- The present continuing quest for justice. 
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