Homelessness in Affluent Societies

Edited by J. Timo Weishaupt, Jan Weckwerth and Christian Hinrichs

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Abstract: This incisive book examines the rise of homelessness in affluent societies and assesses the policies attempting to solve this crisis. Presenting rich empirical case studies from Europe and the Americas with cutting-edge policy examples, it illustrates how local policymakers and third sector organizations try and, in numerous instances, fail to prevent and overcome homelessness and what could be done differently.

Keywords: Homelessness; Urban Inequality; Poverty; Welfare State; Housing; Precarity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035357260
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction: theorizing homelessness in affluent societies

J. Timo Weishaupt, Jan Weckwerth and Christian Hinrichs

Ch 2 Vulnerable women, precarious safety nets: unpacking when and why the welfare state fails to protect women from and during homelessness

J. Timo Weishaupt

Ch 3 Navigating institutional logics and mediums of social control: the embodied visibility of women experiencing multiple exclusion homelessness in public spaces

Heather Williams

Ch 4 Variegated strategies to cope with homelessness and precarious housing in Santiago de Chile: the relevance of gender in housing pathways and political participation

Mauricio Lara Martínez

Ch 5 Crossing borders, losing ground: exploring the links between homelessness and migration in contemporary Europe

Christian Hinrichs

Ch 6 Shelter from the storm: exploring the role of third-sector organizations in addressing migrant homelessness in Italy

Senyo Dotsey

Ch 7 Theorizing the links between precarious housing and homelessness: effects of territorial stigmatization and micro-spatial polarization

Jan Weckwerth

Ch 8 Lack of housing or ‘dwelling paradox’? Housing, social norms, and commodification of services as sites of unhoused persons’ struggle for infrastructure access

Andrea Protschky

Ch 9 Voices from the margins: participatory research in homelessness studies

Jochen Sawilla

Ch 10 Exploring homeless people's identification with the city through visual and discursive narratives

Veronica Polin

Ch 11 In the streets of the Bronx: can unsheltered homelessness be reduced in NYC's poorest borough?

Noel Concepción, Juan P. Rivera and Allyce Morrissey

Ch 12 Doing Housing First: perspectives and experiences of social workers and new tenants from pilot projects in Northern Bavaria (Germany)

Anna Xymena Tissot, Frank Sowa and Nora Sellner

Ch 13 Evaluating trials on basic income and homelessness using the Polanyian capabilitarian framework

Verena Löffler

Ch 14 Conclusions: understanding homelessness in affluent societies

J. Timo Weishaupt, Jan Weckwerth and Christian Hinrichs

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