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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154315903321

Autore

Padgett Deborah

Titolo

Housing First : ending homelessness, transforming systems, and changing lives

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015

ISBN

0-19-998981-8

0-19-998982-6

0-19-045580-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Disciplina

363.50973

Soggetti

Homeless persons - Housing - United States

Homeless persons - Services for - United States

Homeless persons - Housing

Social Welfare & Social Work - General

Social Welfare & Social Work

Social Sciences

Persones sense sostre

Serveis socials

Llibres electrònics

Estats Units d'Amèrica

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Little more than two decades ago, the 'Housing First' (HF) approach pioneered by Pathways to Housing, Inc. was a small but determined challenge to the burgeoning yet ineffective service system for homeless persons. Today, the success of HF has brought about paradigm-shifting systems change not only in the homeless 'industry' but in related service systems. This book employs conceptual frameworks drawn from theories of institutional change and innovation to explore the rise in homelessness in the US, the 'lineages' of responses to the problem, and the subsequent rise of HF.