Introduction: Why social work, housing, and homelessness?
Part One - Housing choices, options, and limitations
Chapter One – A place to call home: Where do we live and what does it mean?
Chapter Two – Property, land, and shelter: Commodity or right
With Steve Iafrati
Chapter Three – Cohesive communities and segregated estates: Values and challenges
Eve Blezard, with the authors
Chapter Four – Housing precarity and disadvantage today: Adjusting service provision to tackle injustice and new risks
Steve Iafrati, with the authors
Part Two - Homeless experiences and specific housing needs
Chapter Five – Homelessness and single people: Supporting routes to shelter and security
Chapter Six – Women, children, families, and homelessness: Advocating for and maintaining family security
Chapter Seven – After care: where now? Care leavers and other young people at risk of rootlessness
Chapter Eight – Adults with disabilities: Options, transitions, and new beginnings
Chapter Nine – Older people: Autonomy, restrictions, and care
Conclusion - How now should social work respond to housing?
Biography
Robert Hagan is a senior lecturer in Social Work at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Anya Ahmed is Professor of Wellbeing and Communities at Manchester Metropolitan University, as well as Academic Director of the university’s Doctoral College.
