Explaining Homelessness
A Critical Realist Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12633849 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Suzanne Fitzpatrick (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-17 |
| Publication date | 2005-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Housing Theory and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1403-6096 • E-ISSN: 1651-2278 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14036090510034563 |
| OpenAlex | W1983818965 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 112 |
| References cited | 25 |
This article attempts to engage with developing critical realist perspectives in housing and urban policy to propose a more rigorous framework for analysing the causes of homelessness. The article is framed mainly in the context of the extensive UK literature on this topic, but the theoretical arguments it pursues are intended to have wider applicability. It contends that the prevailing “new orthodoxy” in explanations of homelessness, which attempts to integrate both “structural” and “individual” causes, is useful at a descriptive level, but is unsatisfactory at a more profound conceptual level. Previous attempts to provide more theoretically informed accounts of homelessness - including positivist, social constructionist, feminist and postmodernist/poststructuralist - are also critiqued from a critical realist standpoint. The complex, emergent and non-linear explanatory framework employed by realists is argued to enable a coherent causal analysis to be maintained in the face of the diverse circumstances associated with homelessness. Poverty, spatial concentrations of disadvantage and domestic violence are used as illustrative examples of potential inter-related causes of homelessness to sketch out a preliminary realist account of this persistent social problem
Context (archaeology · Disadvantage · Economics · Epistemology · Orthodoxy · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Positive economics · Positivism · Poverty · Sketch · Social constructionism · Social science · Sociology · Strict constructionism · Critical Realism in Sociology · Homelessness and Social Issues · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law
Using Evidence to End Homelessness
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Characteristics Associated with Housing Loss Among Youth in a Rapid Rehousing Program
An evaluation of the quality of services provided by the Integrated homeless center of the city of Athens, Greece
Taking care of people experiencing homelessness
Manifesting the Imagined Homeless Body
Dalla migrazione alla strada
Gölgede hizmetler
Multi-Dimensional Recovery and Growth Among the Homeless
“The truth that no one wants to see.” Social work practice, human rights and aesthetic mediation in a group of people experiencing homelessness in Seville (Spain)
Spatial Patterns, Utility, and Limitations of Volunteered Reports of Urban Homeless Campsites in Portland, Oregon
“We don't have a good system for people who don't have a home and don't need a hospital”
“The mortar between the bricks of the services”
Factor structure and invariance of the 12-item general health questionnaire (GHQ-12) for a sample of people in situations of homelessness
Identifying predictors of housing distress in later life
Migration, Access to Social Housing and Reflexivity
Modular Homes as a New Form of Accommodation to Tackle Homelessness
Pathways to Homelessness and Social Exclusion
When Opportunity Fails
Homelessness as a Choice
Housing Theory, Housing Research and Housing Policy
The Promise and Problems of Applying the Capabilities Approach to Housing Policy and Research
Governing Homelessness
Fundamentals Are, Well, Fundamental
Synthesizing Feminist and Critical Realist Approaches to Housing Studies
How Do Poor Families in Australia Avoid Homelessness? An fsQCA Analysis
Using Expressions of Past, Present and Future Homelessness Pathways as a Linguistic Resource in Meeting Interaction in a Low-Threshold Outpatient Clinic
A Critical-Realist View of Housing Quality within the Post-Communist EU States
Beyond Housing
Evaluating homelessness – a comparative analysis of top 10 articles from the US and Europe
Coping strategies of street-involved youth
Safer inside? Comparing the experiences and risks faced by young people who couch-surf and sleep rough
The variation in family background amongst young homeless shelter users in Denmark
Individuals experiencing chronic homelessness
The role of a credit trap on paths to homelessness in the Czech Republic
Patterns and Intensity of Use of Homeless Shelters in Toronto
Between Institutional Inclusion and Invisibility? The Case of Flemish Homelessness Care
Response to Ann Coleman
Researching LGBTQ+ homelessness and building social justice in the UK & the US
Adverse childhood experiences in a pathway to single adult homelessness in Hamilton, New Zealand
Moving on
Theorizing a Social Ecology of Displacement
Learning from place-based flood prevention policies
Mental Health and Homelessness in the Community of Madrid (Spain)
Moderating Effect of Help-Seeking in the Relationship between Religiosity and Dispositional Gratitude among Polish Homeless Adults
Complex needs in homelessness practice
Who’s Homeless and Whose Homeless
Housing First in Denmark
Contradictions Within the Swedish Welfare System
Electoral discourse and formative structural narratives of welfare divergence in multi-level systems
Losing touch
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Transformation in and challenges to the Korean housing solution
Explaining mental health recovery in the context of structural disadvantage
Multiple Exclusion Homelessness in the UK
Comparing Men's and Women's Experiences of Multiple Exclusion Homelessness
Homelessness Transitions, Risks, and Prevention Across the Life Course
Challenges to Implementing the New Homelessness Prevention Agenda in Wales
The Role of Mental Health in Multiple Exclusion Homelessness
Severe and multiple disadvantage
Do people choose to be homeless? An existentially informed hermeneutic phenomenological analysis
Approaches to evaluation of homelessness interventions
Feminist Epistemologies and the Social Relations of Housing Provision
Understanding Homelessness
Defining “At-risk of Homelessness”
Navigating Housing Approaches
Centring Housing in Political Economy
Accumulating Financial Vulnerability, Not Financial Security
Understanding the Nexus between Poverty and Homelessness
Understanding How Young People Exit Homelessness in Australia
Homelessness and critical realism
(Re)conceptualising the boundaries between home and homelessness
Explaining homelessness as a movement using metaphors in European academic writings of homelessness
Exploring Homeless People's Use of Outreach Services
Homeless for the First Time in Later Life
The economy of hot air – habiter , warmth and security among homeless people at the Gare du Nord in Paris
Avoidance strategies
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The inbetweeners of the housing markets – young adults facing housing inequality in Malmö, Sweden
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Home making without a home
Homelessness in the UK
Testing a Typology of Homelessness Across Welfare Regimes
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The right to exist
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Neo-coporatist governance of homeless services in Dublin
Values’ as a tool for conceptualising homelessness in the global south
Pushed by Angels and Hellbent on Better
Understanding adult education in community contexts
Determining factors in the overall happiness and outlook for the future of women living homeless
From Vagrancy to Homelessness
Homelessness in a Scandinavian welfare state
Indigenous Rough Sleeping in Darwin, Australia
Pathways into Multiple Exclusion Homelessness in Seven UK Cities
Family obligations and social change
Theorizing patriarchy
Youth Homelessness
The Philosophy of Social Science
Realist Social Theory
Realism and Social Science
Understanding Contextualised Rational Action - Authors' Response
Constructionism, Realism and Housing Theory
Excluded Places
Constructionism, Realism and Housing Theory
The experience of homeless women
The New Consensus, the Old Consensus and the Provision of Services for People Sleeping Rough
Single Homelessness as Social Exclusion
Some Notes Towards a Realistic Realism
Housing and Homelessness
On the ''Physiological Dope'' Problematic in Housing and Illness Research
Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences
Method in Social Science
Introduction to the Philosophy of Social Research
The Unaccommodated Woman
The Problem of Representation
Refusing the Realism-Structuration Divide
Family Dynamics, Housing, and Recurring Homelessness Among Women in New York City Homeless Shelters
| Unique citing works | 112 |
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| Citations per year | 5,89 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 109 |