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Durable Homelessness: From Negotiations to Emulation
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Abstract In recent decades, Sweden has seen extensive change in its housing policy, with emphasis shifting from "good housing for all" to marketisation and the supposed benefits of private ownership (Bengtsson, 2013; Grander, 2018). Consequently, Swedish society is now facing increasing homelessness rates, i... mehr
In recent decades, Sweden has seen extensive change in its housing policy, with emphasis shifting from "good housing for all" to marketisation and the supposed benefits of private ownership (Bengtsson, 2013; Grander, 2018). Consequently, Swedish society is now facing increasing homelessness rates, including whole new groups of social service clients due to housing shortages and people's difficulties accessing the housing market. This article examines the complexities emerging from diverging institutional frames and points specifically to a dividing line between those who can access housing independently and those who need support from the social services. The article describes how such a categorical division/dividing line is institutionalised in the organisation of the social services' work with homelessness and points to causes and effects of this situation. The case study is based on interviews and documents. The interviewees are staff from the municipal social services and the municipal public housing company. Our theoretical point of departure is Tilly's (1999) "categorical inequality", using exploitation, opportunity hoarding, emulation, and adaptation to explain how homelessness is (created and) maintained in our case study. The results show the dependency of social services on external actors and demonstrate the problematic consequences both for those referred to social services and for the practical work within them, including a requirement to stringently control clients. The results further show how it is possible for the social services to maintain collaboration with (public) housing companies at the same time as the most vulnerable clients are permanently denied housing.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Schweden; Obdachlosigkeit; Sozialwohnung; Wohnungsmarkt; Wohnungsvermittlung; Wohnung; Sozialpolitik
Klassifikation
soziale Probleme
Sozialwesen, Sozialplanung, Sozialarbeit, Sozialpädagogik
Freie Schlagwörter
homelessness; social housing; social services
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2021
Seitenangabe
S. 286-295
Zeitschriftentitel
Social Inclusion, 9 (2021) 3
Heftthema
Home- and Community-Based Work at the Margins of Welfare: Balancing between Disciplinary, Participatory and Caring Approaches
ISSN
2183-2803
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)