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In the Face of Opposition: An Analysis of Homeless Services in Skid Row
California is currently grappling with a severe homeless crisis, with Los Angeles and particularly Skid Row, harboring the largest homeless...
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Evaluating algorithmic homeless service allocation
Improving the homelessness system and evaluating the effectiveness of delivered services are critical to achieve optimal usage of limited social...
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Can police cam** ticket geographies facilitate homeless outreach? Identifying harms and people in homeless encampments
Unsheltered persons experiencing homelessness (PEH) encounter many kinds of harm, and it is often unclear what data sources can be leveraged to...
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Structurational Perspectives on the Resilience of Homeless People in Hong Kong
Since its emergence as a social issue in Hong Kong in the late 70s, the framing of homelessness has shifted from the individual to structural...
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iii. Homeless Children’s Rights During the Pandemic
The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted disparity in who gets the illness and resources to combat it. This chapter explores the...
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Explaining Life-Course Differences in Homeless Men Using Family-of-Origin Theory
Family-of-origin theory suggests that unstable functioning of the family of origin is related to the limited motivation to take advantage of...
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The Impact of Increasing Welfare Needs and Exclusion of Homeless People in the Urban Underclass Communities of Kotobuki, Yokohama
Kotobuki, Yokohama is a lower-income urban community in Japan that has recently experienced a noticeable increase in welfare needs. With the...
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“Homelessness and Health Problems Are Not Distinct:” the Challenges of Rural-Urban Migrant Homeless Older People in Ethiopia
Compared with western countries, research on homelessness among older people in develo** nations is minimal. Unlike in Global North nations that...
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Mobile Lifelines in the Lives of People Who Are Homeless
This chapter introduces the role of the mobile phone and the internet in the everyday lives of families, young people, and adults when homeless,...
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Homeless People, COVID-19 and the Insufficient and Discriminatory Measures Adopted by the City of Buenos Aires’s Government
The COVID-19 pandemic, which has had a high impact in the Latin American region since March 2020, has produced the dictation of various measures in...
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From Confinement to Dispersion: The Changing Geographies of Homeless Policies and the Last Housing Safety Net in Tokyo
Japan’s last urban housing safety net has undergone several important evolutions since the late 1990s, with the gradual establishment of homelessness...
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Homeless in Spain: An Analysis Based on Multidimensional Indicators of Deprivation
This paper analyses the situation of the homeless in Spain before and during the Great Recession, using a multidimensional approach based on the...
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Dwell in Residual Places: Precarization Vortex and Necropolitics in the Homeless Life of the Mexican Northern Border
The chapter claims that the formation of homelessness in border cities like Tijuana is shaped by a series of violent and exclusionary...
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Support for homeless young people under 16 years old: towards a new paradigm
Young people who become homeless before the age of 16 years face particular problems finding appropriate services that address their needs. This has...
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Homelessness and Mental Illness: Medicalizing a Housing Crisis
This paper explores the custody and removal of homeless individuals as well as their rights and ability to defend themselves from unwanted...
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From Stigma to Pride: New Practices of Housing-Based Welfare for Regenerating Disadvantaged Communities in Taipei City, Taiwan
Homelessness has been considered a common issue in Taiwan’s developed city-regions since the 1980s. This Chapter focuses on the case of the Longshan...
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Unsettling the Spatial in Identity Construction: Mediating Homecoming from Homeless Shanghai to Dystopian Dongbei in The Postmodern Life of My Aunt
Since China’s economic transformation of the 1990s, Dongbei has been suffering a slowing economy and decreasing population. Many Dongbei natives have...