Houses with elastic walls : negotiating home and homelessness within the policy domain / by Chez Leggatt-Cook and Kerry Chamberlain

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Title

Houses with elastic walls : negotiating home and homelessness within the policy domain / by Chez Leggatt-Cook and Kerry Chamberlain

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National Library of New Zealand

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Index New Zealand

Description

Presents a case study involving the New Zealand Coalition to End Homelessness (NZCEH) to illustrate the difficulties of reconciling discourses, when framing homelessness policy, that construct homelessness as a housing issue or, more radically, as an issue of social exclusion. Traces the challenges presented to the politics of social action by recognising homelessness as an issue of social exclusion, but needing to frame it as an issue of housing to effect policy change. Argues that social ...

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Format

Journal

Date created

2015

Creator

Leggatt-Cook, Chez, (School of Psychology, Massey University, Auckland) / Chamberlain, Kerry, (School of Psychology, Massey University, Auckland)

URL

http://natlib.govt.nz/records/35783606

Related subjects

Homeless persons -- Housing -- Government policy / Homeless persons -- Services for / Homelessness -- Government policy / Marginality, Social -- Government policy / Social advocacy / Case studies

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