Welfare Regimes, Social Values and Homelessness: Comparing Responses to Marginalised Groups in Six European Countries

Suzanne Fitzpatrick and Mark Stephens

Housing Studies, 2014, vol. 29, issue 2, 215-234

Abstract: This paper examines the exposure to homelessness of socially marginalised groups to understand better the applicability of, and limits to, welfare regime analysis. A vignette methodology is deployed in six European countries to interrogate and compare responses to marginalised groups at high risk of homelessness, including people with substance misuse problems, ex-offenders, young people excluded from the family home, migrants and women fleeing domestic violence. Evidence suggests that a range of values embedded in national political cultures-including familialism, social cohesion, individuality, personal responsibility and personal liberty, as well as egalitarianism-impact on models of intervention and outcomes for specific marginalised groups in ways which cannot be straightforwardly predicted from conventional welfare regime analysis.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.848265

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