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HOMELESSNESS - CAMERON PARSELL KARTONIERT (TB)

Homelessness is a punishing condition that inflicts unquestionable harm on those who experience
it. It is also a social problem that starkly lays bare deep societal failure. As Cameron
Parsell shows  society - along with the public policy measures intended to address it - treats
being homeless as an identity  casting those who experience homelessness as fundamentally
different from us. To be homeless is to face daily victimization  to be a recipient of someone
else's care  and to have autonomy taken away. Parsell argues that we have at our disposal the
knowledge and momentum to demonstrably reduce and even end homelessness. Our first task is to
confront the fact that homelessness is a relatively predictable phenomenon that
disproportionately impacts people who are failed by society in myriad ways. We must respond to
the problem in ways that understand and thus do not recreate the dehumanizing conditions
experienced by those who are homeless. Homelessness is a choice: of how we organize society.
Sketching the defining features of homelessness  this critical introduction will be a valuable
resource for students studying homelessness  housing  marginality  and poverty across the
social sciences and social work.

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