Marginally housed or marginally homeless
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12889441 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emma Laurie (0000-0002-2178-1593, University of Southampton, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 69-84 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Law in Context (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-5523 • E-ISSN: 1744-5531 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1744552322000040 |
| OpenAlex | W4226232728 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
The English homelessness scheme has been lauded as being one of the most progressive in the world for offering an individually legally enforceable right to housing to those people who meet the statutory criteria. Its definition of homelessness is also liberal by comparison with many other countries within Europe and beyond, extending significantly beyond the stereotypical rooflessness experienced by rough sleepers. Nevertheless, the scheme is highly selective and targeted, and assesses homelessness through a test of relative need, rather than enshrining a minimally acceptable standard of housing. It thereby creates a category of the marginally housed whose housing needs are assessed as insufficiently poor to be officially categorised as homeless, yet who are living in severely inadequate housing. To reduce the uncertainty and contingency of the current test, the paper proposes the adoption of a new test of habitability
Contingency · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Habitability · Political science · Scheme (mathematics · Statutory law · Test (biology · Homelessness and Social Issues · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US
Homelessness and the ‘over-judicialisation’ of welfare
Methodological Issues in Enumerating Homeless Individuals
Understanding Homelessness
Homelessness as Capability Deprivation
Capabilities, Value Pluralism and Homelessness
Homelessness and theory reconsidered
Ending Security of Tenure for Social Renters
The Statutory Homelessness System in England
Homelessness in the UK
Reducing Homelessness or Re‐ordering the Deckchairs
Improving Housing Conditions in the Private and Social Rented Sectors
Housing as a Social Right
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |