Neoliberal Subjectivities, the “New” Homelessness, and Struggles over Spaces of/in the City

Casino, Vincent J. Del; Jocoy, Christine L.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8330.2008.00583.x

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“…This is because experiences of homelessness amongst these groups go beyond the lack of shelter per se, and take place across a complex spectrum of unsafe, insecure and inadequate housing (Chamberlain and Johnson 2001, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2005, Leggatt-Cook 2007). Such experiences not only constitute homelessness 'under a roof' but also tend to involve gendered and age-related patterns of disadvantage, driven by the experience of unequal social power relationships (Watson and Austerberry 1986, Crinall 1995, Del Casino Jr. and Jocoy 2008.…”

Section: Low Priority: Barriers To Accessing Formal Accommodation Andmentioning

confidence: 98%

Couch surfing on the margins: the reliance on temporary living arrangements as a form of homelessness amongst school-aged home leavers

McLoughlin

2013

Journal of Youth Studies

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This paper examines couch surfing as a form of youth homelessness. The focus is on adolescents who do not have support from parental homes and who frequently move from one temporary living arrangement to another, without a secure 'place to be'. Drawing on the findings of sociological research with a group of young couch surfers in Australia, the aim is to unpack the marginalising social processes that produce this practice as an outcome of early home leaving. Contrary to the view that adolescent couch surfers are managing their living situations for the time being, this research suggests that couch surfing is in itself an experience and product of dislocation, which (re)inscribes disadvantage. Reflecting on the interview accounts, the paper first shows how the reliance on informal living arrangements is one way in which young people are contending with the risks of early home leaving 'for themselves' Á in lieu of preferable alternatives from formalised welfare systems. Second, in bringing attention to the tenuousness attached to their reliance on informal living arrangements, this paper shows how couch surfing emerges as a form of homelessness without 'rooflessness': a situation in which young people's attempts to gain ontological security are consistently undermined. The findings of this research broaden our understanding of the social and political inequalities limiting young people's resources for negotiating adult life.

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Section: Low Priority: Barriers To Accessing Formal Accommodation Andmentioning

confidence: 98%

Couch surfing on the margins: the reliance on temporary living arrangements as a form of homelessness amongst school-aged home leavers

McLoughlin

2013

Journal of Youth Studies

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“…By their estimation, such research, which “questions and deconstructs our common ways of thinking and acting”, is “at the margin” of the housing first literature (p. 171). Within geography, housing first ideas tend to be remarked upon only in passing, as either an interesting counterpoint to managerial and punitive policy orthodoxies (Mitchell ) or as part of the discursive context for certain other governmental interventions (Del Casino & Jocoy ; Klodawsky ; Evans , ; Sparks ; von Mahs ). Although these allied accounts are highly valuable, our understanding of the histories and geographies that shape and reflect housing first itself remains weak.…”

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‘Housing First’ and the Changing Terrains of Homeless Governance

Baker

Evans

2016

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Over the last fifteen years, programs based on ‘housing first’ models have swept to prominence as solutions to homelessness. Such programs serve a small subset of the overall homeless population, namely the ‘chronically’ homeless, offering direct access to permanent housing with comprehensive and flexible support services attached. Hailed as socially progressive responses to homelessness—based on their opposition to traditional emphases on client passivity, sobriety and moralised deservingness—the popularity of housing first models has often depended on congruence with wider projects of welfare retrenchment and fiscal austerity. Despite the rapid globalisation and high public profile of housing first ideas, they have been largely overlooked in geographical accounts of homeless governance. In response, this article discusses the growing importance and influence of housing first ideas, before looking to contemporary debates on homeless governance for interpretive insights. Informed by these debates, we sketch conceptual areas to which future research on housing first models and programs might attend: first, to their ambivalent politics and, second, to the processes and practices of translation that are central to their implementation and political consequence. Moving beyond questions of operational efficacy, efficiency and fidelity, we call for critical but constructive accounts focused on the constitutive relations between housing first ideas and governance transformations at and across a range of scales and sites.

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“…Our findings contribute to the knowledge base about homelessness, particularly chronic homelessness because they are the most vulnerable to policy-informed definitions of homelessness, while least likely to have their voices considered in the determination of that definition (Del Casino & Jocoy, 2008). In regard to human behavior in the social environment, Hutchinson writes that social work has included the “physical environment” in its practice definition of the “social environment,” which has left the physical environment “ignored” since Jane Addams, hindering multidisciplinary studies that would be conducted by social workers and geographers alike (p. 464).…”

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Somewhere to be permanent for a minute: Time and space perceptions of older adult men experiencing chronic homelessness in Detroit

Petrusak

Perry

Hassevoort

2017

Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment

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Within the landscape of postwar era Detroit, space is vast, but places are hard to find. As people tumble down the side of Maslow’s pyramid into abject homelessness, they attempt to anchor themselves in locations that suspend the otherwise situational free fall. This article analyzes how time and space are perceived by people experiencing chronic homelessness and how those individual perceptions are informed by the objective time and space urban environment. We conducted our community-based participatory research into the experiences of chronic homelessness both from perspectives of chronically homeless older adult men and from front-line service providers. Themes that emerged are as follows: (1) temporary permanence, (2) permanent temporariness, and (3) lostness. The article concludes with policy implications regarding the procedures for measuring the extent of homelessness and the needs of those who live it.

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Neoliberal Subjectivities, the “New” Homelessness, and Struggles over Spaces of/in the City

Cited by 45 publications

References 15 publications

Couch surfing on the margins: the reliance on temporary living arrangements as a form of homelessness amongst school-aged home leavers

Couch surfing on the margins: the reliance on temporary living arrangements as a form of homelessness amongst school-aged home leavers

‘Housing First’ and the Changing Terrains of Homeless Governance

Somewhere to be permanent for a minute: Time and space perceptions of older adult men experiencing chronic homelessness in Detroit

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