Welfare Regimes and Homelessness. What Kind of Relationship?

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Published: Jul 10, 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/sp.10879
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Welfare Regimes Homelessness Comparative Social Policy
Ανδρέας Φερώνας
Πανεπιστήμιο Πελοποννήσου
Νίκος Κουραχάνης
Πάντειο Πανεπιστήμιο
Abstract

This article explores the relationship between the broader structure and characteristics of welfare regimes with the phenomenon of homelessness. To this end, the first section provides a review of the literature on welfare regimes and their connection with the phenomenon of homelessness. The second section contains the empirical investigation, in the form of a comparative analysis of primary statistical data and a qualitative analysis of reports and documents relating to national strategies on homelessness in six countries, representatives of the respective welfare regimes. What comes out from the analysis is a confirmation of the difficulty to prove a linear relationship between welfare regimes and homelessness. The availability of reliable and comparable primary data is a prerequisite for further exploration of a hitherto unexplored problem of extreme poverty and social exclusion.

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