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Housing and Social Policy - Contemporary Themes and Critical Perspectives (Paperback, New edition)
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Housing and Social Policy - Contemporary Themes and Critical Perspectives (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Housing and Society Series
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This topical book links housing issues in other areas of social
policy drawing on current themes in the social sciences. It
transforms the analysis of housing problems into a lively,
interesting and contentious subject of social scientific study.
Housing is fundamentally integrated into the welfare system and
therefore requires exploration using conceptual ideas drawn from
the social sciences. This book aims to encourage those studying and
working in both social policy and housing to think refelxively
about housing as a central instrument of social policy, rather than
considering it to be an isolated occupation that merely requires
the application of technical and administrative skills. As well as
two chapters expounding and reviewing the centrality of housing to
wider social policy and social experience, this book is largely
comprised of chapters which each consider a specific social
category, such as class, gender, or disability, and evaluate the
experience and understanding of housing and social policy under
this category. The authors address themes of residential
experience, inclusion/empowerment, sustainability and
professionalism/managerialism, which lie at the heart of the h
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