Front Cover -- Reimagining Homelessness -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- One Recollecting homelessness -- Introduction -- After the Housing Act 1988 -- Ireland in comparative perspective -- Hyper-homelessness in Ireland -- Conclusion -- Two Responding to homelessness -- Introduction -- Historical responses to homelessness -- Containing vagrants -- Re-conceptualising responses to vagrancy -- Rethinking responses to vagrancy -- Managing vagrant women -- Welfare and vagrancy -- Sheltering the homeless -- Contemporary perceptions of homelessness -- Varying experiences of homelessness -- Researching the 'homeless' -- Some myths of homelessness -- 'There but for the grace of God go I': homelessness can happen to anyone -- 'Winos': homelessness and alcohol -- 'Bring back the asylums': disabilities and homelessness -- Rough sleepers: 'a wicked social problem' -- Charity and compassion: street services for people experiencing homelessness -- Insufficient funding? Spending on homelessness -- Conclusion -- Three Recording homelessness -- Introduction -- Homelessness in Ireland, 2014-19 -- Households experiencing homelessness in temporary and emergency accommodation -- Rough sleepers -- Flows into homelessness -- Length of stay in homelessness services -- Exiting homelessness -- A changing landscape -- Not just Dublin -- Families experiencing homelessness -- Gender and homelessness -- Hotels and B& -- Bs -- Migration -- Traveller households -- Complex needs? -- Ireland in comparative perspective -- Conclusion -- Four Reacting to homelessness -- Introduction -- The direction of housing policy -- Rebuilding Ireland -- Social housing tenancies and social housing supports -- Providers and services -- Hotels and hubs -- Shelters -- Housing First -- Preventing homelessness -- Tenancy Protection Service -- Homeless HAP.

Prioritising homeless households for social housing tenancies -- Dublin Region Homeless Executive prevention service -- Public and private expenditure on services for people experiencing homelessness -- Conclusion -- Note -- Five Rethinking homelessness -- Introduction -- Housing and homelessness -- Barriers to rapid rehousing -- The importance of social housing -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Index -- Back Cover.

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Bringing to light the most contemporary research, policy and practice, this book presents stark evidence from Irish experience to argue that we need to urgently reimagine the root causes of homelessness and provides a robust evidence base to reimagine how we respond to homelessness.

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