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