Coping with homelessness : issues to be tackled and best practices in Europe /
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| Imprint: | Aldershot ; Brookfield, USA : Ashgate, c1999. |
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| Description: | xvii, 562 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3762636 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction: The State-of-the-art Research of Homelessness and Provision of Services in Europe
- Part 1. Poverty, Social Exclusion and Homelessness
- 1. Weakening and Breaking of Social Ties: Analysis of Explanatory Factors
- 2. Free Markets, Poverty and Social Exclusion
- 3. Theoretical Uses and Misuses of the Notion of Exclusion
- 4. Homelessness and the Housing Factor: Learning from the Debate on Homelessness and Poverty
- 5. Conclusions and Policy Implications
- Part 2. The Research of Homelessness: Data and Methodology
- 6. Data Sources on Homelessness and Data Necessary for Needs-based Research
- 7. Annual Survey on Homelessness in Finland: Definitions and Methodological Aspects
- 8. Existing and Proposed Data Gathering Systems in the Netherlands Concerning the Homeless
- 9. Living in the Streets of Vienna: The Methodology of the 1993 ICCR Study
- 10. The Homeless in Paris: A Representative Sample Survey of Users of Services for the Homeless
- 11. Using 'Capture-Recapture' to Estimate the Size of the Homeless Population
- 12. US Homeless Research During the 1980s and Early 1990s: Approaches, Lessons Learned, and Methodological Options
- 13. Conclusions and Policy Implications
- Part 3. Values and Policies in Relation to Homelessness
- 14. Regimes of Social Policy in Europe and the Patterning of Homelessness
- 15. Different Policy Approaches to Homelessness
- 16. Housing Policy and Homelessness: The Danish Case
- 17. Housing Policy and Homelessness in Finland
- 18. Conclusions and Policy Implications
- Part 4. Services for Homeless People-Needs and Provisions
- 19. Social Emergency: Between Myth and Reality
- 20. The Heterogeneity of Homelessness and the Consequences for Service Provision
- 21. Temporary Accommodation for Homeless People in Germany with Special Focus on the Provision for Immigrants and Asylum Seekers
- 22. Urgent Accommodation Shelters for Homeless People in Greece: Who Provides Services and Who Uses Them?
- 23. Reflections on Homelessness as Seen from an Institution for the Homeless in Copenhagen
- 24. Conclusions and Policy Implications
- Part 5. The Research Agenda
- 25. Reflections on Needs for Future Research
- Contributors
- Contributing Organisations