The problem of homelessness is deeply emblematic of the sort of society Britain has become. What other social phenomena could better epitomise the end of modernity than our seeming inability to adequately respond to the most basic needs – shelter, warmth, food – of substantial numbers of our ‘citizens’? Homelessness and Social Policy offers a dispassionate analysis of the problem of homelessness and the policy responses it has so far invoked. By reviewing theoretical and legal conceptualisations of homelessness and presenting extensive statistical analyses, this book considers the impact of the experience of homelessness and the policy responses. Homelessness and Social Policy will prove to be invaluable to students of social and public policy, health studies, housing studies and sociology.Additional ISBNs0415154561, 041515457X, 0203443322, 9780415154567, 9780415154574, 9780203443323, 1280318260, 0203276779, 1134734123, 9781280318269, 9780203276778, 9781134734122Homelessness and Social Policy 1st Edition and published by Routledge. ISBNs for Homelessness and Social Policy are 9781134734122, 1134734123 and the print ISBNs are 9780415154574, 041515457X. Additional ISBNs include 0415154561, 041515457X, 0203443322, 9780415154567, 9780415154574, 9780203443323, 1280318260, 0203276779, 1134734123, 9781280318269, 9780203276778, 9781134734122.