Title of article :
Interconnecting housing, homelessness and rurality: evidence from local authority homelessness officers in England and Wales
Author/Authors :
Paul Cloke، نويسنده , , Paul Milbourne، نويسنده , , Rebekah Widdowfield، نويسنده ,
Issue Information :
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2001
Pages :
13
From page :
99
To page :
111
Abstract :
This paper investigates the discursive and practical policy issues relating to homelessness in rural areas of England and Wales. It begins with the argument that such homelessness does represent a significant but under-emphasised problem in rural areas. Official government counting of rural homelessness itself underestimates the scale of the problem, but provides a starting point for an understanding of more hidden forms of homelessness. We suggest a number of ways in which rural homelessness is less visible than its well-publicised urban counterpart, relating to the morphology of rural areas, social-cultural constructs of idyll-ic rural living, and conceptual assumptions which render homelessness as out-of-place in purified rural spaces. We then report on findings from a survey of local authority homelessness officers in England and Wales and in-depth interviews with officers in the counties of Somerset and Gloucestershire. Seeing the issues through the eyes of these practitioners clarifies a number of strands of the invisibility of rural homelessness, and points to very significant interconnections between ‘housing’ and ‘homelessness’ discourses in the local rural policy process.
Journal title :
Journal of Rural Studies
Serial Year :
2001
Journal title :
Journal of Rural Studies
Record number :
744831
Link To Document :
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