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Whose fault is homelessness? Thirty years ago the problem exploded as a national crisis, drawing the attention of activists, the media, and policymakers at all levels—yet the homeless population endures to this day, and arguably has grown. David Wagner offers a major reconsideration of homelessness in the US, casting a critical eye on how we as a society respond to crises of inequality and stratification.

Incorporating local studies into a national narrative, Wagner probes how homelessness shifted from being thesubject of a politically charged controversy over poverty and social class to posing a functional question of socialservice delivery. At the heart of his analysis is a provocative insight into why we accept highly symbolic policies that dampen public outrage, but fail to address the fundamental structural problems that would allow real change.

Confronting Homelessness: Poverty, Politics, and the Failure of Social Policy

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    Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc
    Publication Date: 30/10/2015
    ISBN13: 9781626373914, 978-1626373914
    ISBN10: 1626373914

    Number of Pages: 207

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    Whose fault is homelessness? Thirty years ago the problem exploded as a national crisis, drawing the attention of activists, the media, and policymakers at all levels—yet the homeless population endures to this day, and arguably has grown. David Wagner offers a major reconsideration of homelessness in the US, casting a critical eye on how we as a society respond to crises of inequality and stratification.

    Incorporating local studies into a national narrative, Wagner probes how homelessness shifted from being thesubject of a politically charged controversy over poverty and social class to posing a functional question of socialservice delivery. At the heart of his analysis is a provocative insight into why we accept highly symbolic policies that dampen public outrage, but fail to address the fundamental structural problems that would allow real change.

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