International Perspectives on Rural Homelessness (Housing, Planning and Design Series) - Softcover
Book 8 of 9: Housing, Planning and Design Series
Synopsis
Drawing on recent academic studies in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, this book is the first international text on homelessness in rural areas. Consisting of fifteen specially commissioned chapters, International Perspectives on Rural Homelessness provides comparative material on the cultural, political and policy contexts of rural homelessness, examining the nature and scale of the issue and the complex local geographies of rural homelessness.
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Review
"[The] strength and value of this collection is the detailed analyses provided and the ample opportunity they provide to the reader to move beyond the familiarity of their own country to reconsider rural homelessness from profoundly different perspectives." - Housing Studies
About the Author
VALERIE POLAKOW is Professor of Education at Eastern Michigan University and author of Living on the Edge: Single Mothers and their Children in the Other America.CINDY GUILLEAN is researcher and editorial assistant at the University of Michigan School of Social Work./e
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