ABSTRACT
This handbook provides a comprehensive global survey and assessment of the law and policy relating to homelessness prevention. Homelessness is regarded internationally as one of the most pressing issues facing humanity and one of the greatest social challenges of our times. This has been further amplified as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Across the globe, there is an enormous divergence in both experiences of and responses to homelessness from governments and state actors. This handbook examines how different jurisdictions from across all five continents of the world have encountered, framed and responded to homelessness. Written by expert scholars and leaders in their field, the book engages in a multidisciplinary and comparative analysis of homelessness as an issue of acute social concern. Understandings of homelessness are geographically, culturally and historically situated, making analysis of each jurisdiction’s approach by a national expert deeply insightful. The collection examines legal and extra-legal policy interventions targeted at reducing or preventing homelessness from across the globe. Drawing on diverse perspectives, differing cultures and welfare regimes, it thus constitutes a timely evaluation of current approaches to homelessness internationally. This book will appeal to students and scholars of homelessness, sociology, social policy, anthropology, and urban sociology, as well as international and national policymakers.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|211 pages
Europe
chapter 3|16 pages
Categorization, Selection, Displacement, and Invisibilization
chapter 4|24 pages
(Still) Much Untapped Potential in Homelessness Services
chapter 6|17 pages
Homelessness and Hidden Homelessness in Spain
chapter 10|13 pages
Governing Homelessness in the Netherlands
chapter 12|17 pages
Homelessness in Switzerland
part II|75 pages
North America
chapter 13|13 pages
Homelessness in Canada
chapter 14|19 pages
The Policy of State as a Social Determinant of Health
chapter 15|18 pages
Homelessness in the United States of America
chapter 16|23 pages
Innovative Policy Responses to Housing Need in the United States
part III|36 pages
South America
chapter 17|19 pages
‘Nothing About Us Without Us’
part IV|50 pages
Africa
chapter 20|18 pages
Preventing and Ending Homelessness in South Africa
chapter 21|16 pages
The Housing Crisis and Homelessness in Zimbabwe
part V|77 pages
Asia
part VI|54 pages
Oceania