Explanations of, and responses to, youth homelessness in local authority housing departments
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7332261 |
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| Authors | Jamie Harding (0000-0002-6327-1364, Northumbria University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 58-69 |
| Publication date | 1999-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Local Government Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0300-3930 • E-ISSN: 1743-9388 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03003939908433957 |
| OpenAlex | W2022064405 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
This article examines the relationship between beliefs about youth homelessness and the steps being taken by local authorities to tackle the problem, based on interviews with officers responsible for dealing with youth homelessness in north‐eastern local authorities. Officers blamed young people's homelessness on a wide range of factors, but the action they thought appropriate to tackle the problem tended to focus on making more accommodation available or supporting young people to live in it. Officers expressed frustration at their inability to provide adequate support. It appeared that action to meet young people's needs was most likely to be taken when it also incorporated a ‘housing management’ objective such as filling empty properties
Accommodation · Action (physics · Criminology · Economic growth · Economics · Local authority · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Homelessness and Social Issues · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Psychology · Public Administration
| Highly cited | No |
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