The Homelessness Industry
Author | : Elizabeth Beck |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018 |
ISBN-10 | : 1626377979 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781626377974 |
Rating | : 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Homelessness Industry written by Elizabeth Beck and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 being a social-justice issue to one with solutions based on medical models and zero-sum-games analyses, Beck and Twiss explore how government polic.