Better Must Come: Exiting Homelessness in Two Global Cities
Better Must Come: Exiting Homelessness in Two Global Cities
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Abstract
This book reveals how social contexts at various levels combine and interact to shape the experiences of transitional housing program users in two of the most prosperous cities of the global economy, Los Angeles and Tokyo. This is the first book to directly focus on exits from homelessness in American or Japanese cities, and it is the first targeted comparison of homelessness in two global cities. The book argues that homelessness should be understood primarily as a socially generated, traumatic, and stigmatizing predicament, rather than as a stable condition, identity, or culture. It pushes for movement away from the study of “homeless people” and “homeless culture” toward an understanding of homelessness as a condition that can be transcended at individual and societal levels. The book prescribes policy changes to end homelessness that include expanding subsidized housing to persons without disabilities and experiencing homelessness chronically, as well as taking broader measures to address vulnerabilities produced by labor markets, housing markets, and the rapid deterioration of social safety nets that often results from neoliberal globalization.
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Front Matter
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Part I Homelessness and Global Cities
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Part II Exiting Homelessness in Los Angeles and Tokyo: State Aid and Markets
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Part III Exiting Homelessness in Los Angeles and Tokyo: Social Ties
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Part IV Ending Homelessness in Global Cities
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End Matter
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