Ending Homelessness?: The Contrasting Experiences of Denmark, Finland and Ireland

Description

This book outlines the basis for a radical shift in responding to homelessness in Europe and North America and examines reasons for the variation in outcomes across the three jurisdictions. Homelessness is on the increase in most European state and remains at stubbornly high levels in North America. This is despite virtually all European and North American states having devised strategies that promise to move away from managing homelessness and towards ending homelessness. Providing an authoritative comparative account of policies and strategies that have worked, along with those that have not, Ending Homelessness? makes a valuable and timely contribution to the current debate and provides essential policy lessons for the multiple jurisdictions seeking to successfully tackle the homelessness crisis.

Mike Allen joined Focus Ireland in 2010 and is responsible for the organisation's advocacy, research and communication work. He previously spent 8 years as the General Secretary of the Labour Party. Lars Benjaminsen is a researcher at The Danish Center for Social Science Research (VIVE), the largest social research institute in Denmark. Since 2006 he has been an active member of the European Observatory on Homelessness. Eoin O'Sullivan is a Professor in Social Policy at Trinity College Dublin. Nicholas Pleace is Director of the Centre for Housing Policy and a Professor of Social Policy at the University of York.

"The lessons unearthed in this book will be pivotal if ending homelessness is to progress from an admirable objective to a realisable goal." Joe Doherty, University of St Andrews. "An extremely important contribution to our understanding of homelessness. It offers the reader critical insights, as well as concrete suggestions on the policy settings required to end homelessness." Guy Johnson, RMIT University