Overview
- Explores policy on homelessness since 1945
- Identifies five factors that explain key policy developments
- Draws on the experience of key figures in homelessness policy over the past 50 years
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Keywords
- Homelessness
- defining homelessness
- quantifying homelessness
- inequalities
- Victorian era
- World War Two
- causes of homelessness
- single homeless people
- geographical differences
- housebuilding
- 1948 National Assistance Act
- welfare policies
- welfare departments
- eviction
- 1957 Rent Act
- Cathy Come Home
- local authorities
- benefits
- social exclusion
- welfare reform
- British Politics
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Book Title: Post-War Homelessness Policy in the UK
Book Subtitle: Making and Implementation
Authors: Jamie Harding
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22117-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22116-4Published: 24 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22119-5Published: 25 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-22117-1Published: 14 August 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 239
Topics: Public Policy, British Politics, Political History, Governance and Government, Development and Social Change, Urban Politics