Homelessness: Exploring the new terrain

Description

This volume assembles theoretical debates and research to explore the nature, experience and impact of social change in the new landscape of precariousness in which new sets of risks and uncertainties have emerged. It adopts a multi-disciplinary approach, which is essential to develop a more subtle understanding of both the complex processes leading to and the experience of homelessness.

Patricia Kennett is a lecturer at the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol. Alex Marsh is a lecturer at the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol.

This book offers a collection of interesting, diverse and up-to-date papers on the changing nature of homelessness in the UK and elsewhere. It will certainly become a key text for the foreseeable future. Housing Studies. Will become essential reading for everybody who is concerned about the problems of homelessness and wants to understand those problems better. This book will undoubtedly contribute to the development of both theory and practice around homelessness.