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Who Has a Home? Houselessness and Housing Insecurity

Contents of This Chapter:

  1. Learning Objectives and Chapter Overview
    1. Learning Objectives
    2. Chapter Overview
    3. Focusing Questions
    4. Licenses and Attributions for Chapter Overview
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      2. Open Content, Shared Previously
      3. All Rights Reserved Content
  2. Housing Insecurity and Houselessness as a Social Problem
    1. Defining Houselessness
    2. Who is Unhoused?
    3. Who is Housing Insecure?
    4. Licenses and Attributions Housing Insecurity and Houselessness as a Social Problem
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  3. Houselessness, Housing Insecurity, and Social Location
    1. What is Social Stratification?
    2. Unpacking Oppression, Equalizing Justice: Social Class
    3. Social Class and Housing
    4. Race and Ethnicity
    5. Gender and Houselessness
    6. Licenses and Attributions for Houselessness, Housing Insecurity and Social Location
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  4. Personal Problems — “Sin” or “Sickness”
    1. Poverty, “Degeneracy,” and Migrants
    2. Hobos and Tramps
    3. Narratives of Houselessness
    4. Licenses and Attributions for Personal Problems — “Sin” or “Sickness”
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  5. Structural Issues of Houselessness
    1. Structural Causes of Indigenous Houselessness
    2. Creating Under-resourced Communities: Racism, Segregation, Redlining
    3. Climate-related displacement
    4. Licenses and Attributions for Structural Issues of Houselessness
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  6. Housing Stability is Social Justice
    1. Supporting Students
    2. Updating the Fair Housing Act
    3. Addressing Houselessness: Housing First
    4. Community Efforts
    5. Licenses and Attributions for Housing Stability is Social Justice
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  7. Chapter Summary
    1. Essential Ideas
    2. Comprehension Check
    3. Key Terms List
    4. Discuss and Do
    5. Licenses and Attributions for Conclusion
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  8. References

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Inequality and Interdependence: Social Problems and Social Justice Copyright © by Kimberly Puttman; Kathryn Burrows; Patricia Halleran; Bethany Grace Howe; Nora Karena; Kelly Szott; and Avery Temple is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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