Homeless Policy: The Need to Speak to Families

1995 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine A. Anderson ◽  
Sally A. Koblinsky
Keyword(s):  
Homeless Policy

Homeless Politics in the United States

2021 ◽  
pp. 16-35
Author(s):  
Charley E. Willison
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Urban Politics ◽  
Intergovernmental Relations ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Policy Governance ◽  
Chronic Homelessness ◽  
Policy Alternatives ◽  
Homeless Policy

Public health studies issues and policies implemented and often governed by local-level public health departments. Yet public health policy research emphasizes state and federal relations. Obscuring the role of local politics and in designing and implementing public health policies inaccurately portrays the functioning of public health systems and may lead to incomplete assumptions about the effects of health politics on public health. Homelessness is no exception, with a long history of expanded governing authority for communities and local governments. To understand homeless policy governance, we must draw from theories of urban politics and intergovernmental relations that have been developed to explain social policy. Chapter 2 develops the main theoretical argument of the book: limited coordination between policy interests governing homeless policy and trends of decentralization in homeless policy governance contribute to fewer publicly funded policy alternatives for solutions to chronic homelessness and increases the policy alternatives for private actors.

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