Social Work, Housing, and Homelessness

Shelter is a basic human requirement, yet housing in the UK has increasingly been perceived as an asset rather than the secure base everyone requires for their basic physical and mental health needs and well-being.

List of contents

0.Introduction: Why social work, housing and homelessness? Part One - Housing choices, options and limitations. 1.A place to call home: Where do we live and what does it mean? 2.Property, land, and shelter: Commodity or right. 3.Cohesive communities and segregated estates: Values and challenges. 4.Housing precarity and disadvantage today: Adjusting service provision to tackle injustice and new risks. Part Two - Homeless experiences and specific housing needs. 5.Homelessness and single people: Supporting routes to shelter and security. 6.Women, children, families and homelessness: Advocating for and maintaining family security. 7.After care: where now? Care leavers and other young people at risk of rootlessness. 8.Adults with disabilities: Options, transitions and new beginnings. 9.Older people: Autonomy, restrictions and care. Conclusion - How now should social work respond to housing?

About the author

Robert Hagan is a senior lecturer in Social Work at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Anya Ahmed is Professor of Wellbeing and Communities at Manchester Metropolitan University, as well as Academic Director of the university's Doctoral College.

Summary

Shelter is a basic human requirement, yet housing in the UK has increasingly been perceived as an asset rather than the secure base everyone requires for their basic physical and mental health needs and well-being.

Product details

• Authors: Anya Ahmed, Ahmed Anya, Robert Hagan, Robert Ahmed Hagan, Hagan Robert
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.03.2025
• EAN: 9781032562636
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3256263-6
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Student Social Work
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; Medicine, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Social Work, Housing and homelessness, Medicine and Nursing