Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, LLC, [2022]
Description
xxvii, 289 pages ; 23 cm
Formatted Contents Note
Historic and societal underpinnings of homelessness today / Maria Foscarinis Foundational principles of homeless advocacy / lived experience narrative George Hill Addressing the impacts of homelessness on diverse communities / lived experience narrative Larae Cantley The criminalization of homelessness / practitioner narrative Adele Nicholas Prevention as housing solution / practitioner narrative Deborah Diamant Hurdles to Housing and Interim Solutions Part I : employment barriers Hurdles to Housing and Interim Solutions Part II : affordable housing and shelter / lived experience narrative Robert Henderson Hurdles to Housing and Interim Solutions Part III : legal representation and models / practitioner narrative Janet Kelly Conclusion Appendix: Preventing Future Homelessness : Report on ADUs / Sara Rankin and Nantiya Ruan.
Summary
"Homeless Advocacy examines the role legal advocacy plays in preventing and ending homelessness. The book provides a history of homelessness, the current state of it in the United States, context on working with unhoused populations, and analyzes the legal issues they face through a practitioner's lens. With these topics, ranging from criminalization of homelessness to employment barriers and affordable housing, the author provides a resource that will encourage and enable more people to advocate on behalf of unhoused populations and will serve as a guidepost to advance that advocacy. There are many books on poverty, but this book is different and complementary as it focuses on the unhoused population and the legal challenges unique to them. It is aimed at law students, policy, and social work students at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and individual activists. It includes narratives from practitioners and those with lived experience of being unhoused"-- Provided by publisher.
