1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Homelessness
The Routledge Handbook of Homelessness brings together many of the world’s leading scholars in the field to provide a cutting-edge overview of classic and current research and future trends in the subject.
Comprising 41 chapters and divided into four sections, the handbook includes
- A comprehensive introduction to homelessness, referring to history, culture, causation and definitions.
- Contemporary and historical debates around homelessness in different academic disciplines.
- Homelessness relating to gender, sexuality, youth, families, migration, rurality, veterans and health.
- A range of country-specific studies to illustrate the ways in which homelessness is researched and understood around the world.
- Methods of engagement and modes of analysis.
With contributors from around the world and editors from the Centre of Housing Policy at the University of York, this handbook provides a groundbreaking and authoritative guide to theory, method and the primary interdisciplinary debates of today on homelessness. It will be essential reading for students, academics and professionals across the disciplines of sociology, human geography, public policy, housing policy, social policy, social work, economics and criminology.
Chapter One – The Role of the Handbook
Joanne Bretherton and Nicholas Pleace
Section One – An Introduction to Homelessness
Chapter Two – Historical Perspectives on Homelessness
Eoin O’Sullivan
Chapter Three – Causation
Joanne Bretherton and Nicholas Pleace
Chapter Four – Defining and Counting Homelessness
Dan Treglia and Dennis Culhane
Chapter Five – Responding to Homelessness: making the human right to housing a reality in Scotland?
Isobel Anderson
Chapter Six – Homelessness and Welfare Systems
Lars Benjaminsen
Chapter Seven – COVID-19
Nicholas Pleace
Section Two – Homelessness across Different Disciplines
Chapter Eight – Crime, Punishment and Homelessness
Eoin O’Sullivan
Chapter Nine – Homelessness and Social Work: Current Challenges and Future Opportunities
Susanne Gerull
Chapter Ten – Homelessness in Human Geography
Jessie Speer
Chapter Eleven – Homelessness Through a Feminist Lens
Juliet Watson
Chapter Twelve – Evidence-Based Approaches to Guide Health Providers for People Experiencing Vulnerable Housing and Complex Needs
Kevin Pottie, Olivia Magwood, Ammar Saad, Sihyun (Shaun) Baek and Alex Lee
Section Three - The Dimensions of Homelessness
Chapter Thirteen – Gender
Joanne Bretherton
Chapter Fourteen – LGBTQ+ People and Homelessness
Jama Shelton
Chapter Fifteen – Youth
Paula Mayock and Sarah Parker
Chapter Sixteen – Children and Families
Deborah Quilgars and Nicholas Pleace
Chapter Seventeen – Migration and Ethnicity
Teresa Consoli
Chapter Eighteen – Rural Dimensions of Homelessness
Mark Bevan
Chapter Nineteen – Veteran Homelessness
Stephen Metraux and Emily Moore
Chapter Twenty – Homelessness and health through the lens of social quality
Judith Wolf and Maša Filipovič Hrast
Chapter Twenty-one – Complex Needs and Housing First
Nicholas Pleace
Chapter Twenty-two – Homelessness and Substance Use
Paula Mayock and Branagh O’Shaughnessy
Chapter Twenty-three – Costs
Nicholas Pleace
Section Four – International Experience of Homelessness
Chapter Twenty-four – Home Truths: Homelessness in Australia
Guy Johnson, Fiona Carey and Sue McCallum
Chapter Twenty-five – Modern Mass Homelessness in Canada
Stephen Gaetz
Chapter Twenty-six – Homelessness in China
Della Qiu, Carole Zufferey and Siyi Tang
Chapter Twenty-seven – Homelessness in Denmark
Lars Benjaminsen
Chapter Twenty-eight – Homelessness in Finland
Saija Turunen and Riitta Granfelt
Chapter Twenty-nine – Homelessness in Germany
Volker Busch-Geertsema
Chapter Thirty – Homelessness in Hungary
Nóra Teller, Fruzsina Albert, Boróka Fehér and Péter Győri
Chapter Thirty-one – Ireland and Homelessness
Sarah Sheridan and Sarah Parker
Chapter Thirty-two – Homelessness in Italy
Caterina Cortese and Teresa M. Consoli
Chapter Thirty-three – Homelessness in Japan
Yoshihiro Okamoto and Joanne Bretherton
Chapter Thirty-four – Homelessness in Poland
Magdalena Mostowska
Chapter Thirty-five – Homelessness in Portugal
Isabel Baptista
Chapter Thirty-six – Homelessness in Slovenia
Maša Filipovič Hrast
Chapter Thirty-seven – Sweden
Marcus Knutagård
Chapter Thirty-eight – UK
Nicholas Pleace and Joanne Bretherton
Chapter Thirty-nine – Homelessness in the United States
Samantha Batko and Dennis Culhane
Chapter Forty – Homelessness in Montevideo: policy implications and future challenges
Fiorella Ciapessoni
Chapter Forty-one - Homelessness Futures
Nicholas Pleace and Joanne Bretherton
Biography
Joanne Bretherton, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Social Justice and Criminology and a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Housing Policy at the School for Business and Society at the University of York.
Professor Nicholas Pleace is the Director of the Centre for Housing Policy at the School for Business and Society at the University of York and a member of the European Observatory on Homelessness, operating under the auspices of FEANTSA.
