The Homelessness Industry: A Critique of Us Social Policy

by Elizabeth Beck

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1626377413
• ISBN13: 9781626377417
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
• Length: 280 Pages