Homelessness and social infrastructure

Simon Güntner, Nancy Meyer-Adams and Marc Diebäcker

Chapter 10 in Handbook of Social Infrastructure, 2024, pp 200-209 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Geography; Sociology and Social Policy; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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