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Housing first

ending homelessness, transforming systems, and changing lives

By Deborah Padgett

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Publish Date

2016

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Language

eng

Pages

228

Description:

Little more than two decades ago, the 'Housing First' (HF) approach pioneered by Pathways to Housing, Incorporated was a small but determined challenge to the burgeoning yet ineffective service system for homeless persons. Today, the success of HF has brought about paradigm-shifting systems change not only in the homeless 'industry' but in related service systems. This book employs conceptual frameworks drawn from theories of institutional change and innovation to explore the rise in homelessness in the US, the 'lineages' of responses to the problem, and the subsequent rise of HF.