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Homelessness and social infrastructure

In: Handbook of Social Infrastructure

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  • Simon Güntner
  • Nancy Meyer-Adams
  • Marc Diebäcker

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This contribution reflects on the variety of infrastructure available to, and used by, people experiencing homelessness or at risk thereof to get by and to eventually overcome their destitute situation. A broad approach to social infrastructure is applied that looks beyond formal services by public authorities or charities and widens the scope to include public space and other resources that are frequented and used. Nevertheless, formal social services are central, and we’ll describe their main institutions and rationales in Europe and in the US. The last decades have seen a shift from approaches that aim at sheltered accommodation to rapid housing, based on a fundamental critique of the core functionings of the system that often fail to help persons back to independent living.

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  • Simon Güntner & Nancy Meyer-Adams & Marc Diebäcker, 2024. "Homelessness and social infrastructure," Chapters, in: Anna-Theresa Renner & Leonhard Plank & Michael Getzner (ed.), Handbook of Social Infrastructure, chapter 10, pages 200-209, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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