Homelessness and Housing Stress : Acts of Homefullness (Routledge Advances in Health and Social Policy)

This title offers cross-disciplinary visions and insights into the implications of housing policy across continents, through accounts of the lived experience of homelessness and housing stress. Consisting of twenty chapters, visual essays and manifestos from a range of viewpoints inspired by the introductory Homefullness manifesto, this timely collection explores experiences of and approaches to homelessness and housing stress and presents Homefullness as a positive lens to work towards inclusive, affordable and sustainable communities where everyone has a home. It covers a diverse range of topics including supporting cross-disciplinary thinking and innovation in the areas of homelessness and housing stress. The diverse provocative international thinking, research and practice included here explores the importance of community solidarity, mutual aid, and the meaning of home. This book will be ideal for students, scholars, researchers and practitioners across multiple disciplines and will appeal to readers with interests in the areas of social justice, art, design, activism, homelessness, housing stress, housing policy and provision, human rights and community development.