Identification
of academic ideas/ topics from academic articles for the preparation of a theoretical framework in a housing research
project: an illustration
The note provides some illustration of identifying potential
academic ideas, including academic topics, that could be considered by a researcher
in housing studies to construct a theoretical framework. Such a theoretical framework
can be employed in the agile literature review approach (ALRA). There are five academic
articles examined in this note.
Article 1
Hodgetts, D., O. Stolte, A. Radley, C. Leggatt-Cook,
S. Groot and K. Chamberlain. 2011. "'Near and Fair': Social Distancing in
Domiciled Characterisations of Homeless People" Urban Studies 48(8) June, 1739-1753.
Abstract:
For domiciled individuals, homeless
people provide a disturbing reminder that all is not right with the world.
Reactions to seeing homeless people frequently encompass repulsion, discomfort,
sympathy and sometimes futility. This paper considers domiciled constructions
of homeless people drawn from interviews with 16 participants recruited in the
central business district of a New Zealand city. It documents how, when trying
to make sense of this complex social problem, domiciled people draw on shared
characterisations of homeless people. The concept of ‘social distance’ is used
to interrogate the shifting and sometimes incongruous reactions evident in
participant accounts. ‘Social distancing’ is conceptualised as a dynamic
communal practice existing in interactions between human beings and reflected
in the ways that domiciled people talk about their experiences with homeless
individuals.
Academic
idea used: social distance
Article 2
Peter K. Mackie (2015) Homelessness
Prevention and the Welsh Legal Duty: Lessons for International Policies, Housing Studies, 30:1, 40-59, DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.927055.
Abstract:
The paradigm shift in international
homelessness policies towards a prevention focus has resulted in proven
benefits to society and most importantly to individuals at risk of homelessness.
Across the developed world, homelessness prevention is being pursued with
vigour alongside existing homelessness interventions and yet there has been no
pause for a systematic evaluation of how prevention fits alongside existing
systems. Wales provides the first case where homelessness services have been
systematically reviewed since the prevention turn. This paper critically
examines the implementation of homelessness prevention in Wales, identifying
how deficiencies echo emerging global concerns about the prevention turn.
Drawing upon evidence gathered during a review of homelessness legislation in
Wales, the paper examines the extent to which emerging proposals for legislative
change will overcome problems with prevention. The emerging Welsh homelessness prevention
and alleviation duty is seen as a desirable and replicable model of prevention,
albeit it offers no panacea to the social tragedy of homelessness.
Article 3
Anthony Warnes & Maureen Crane (2006):
The Causes of Homelessness Among Older People in England, Housing Studies,
21:3, 401-421.
Abstract:
A comparative study of the causes
of new episodes of homelessness among people aged 50 years and over has been
undertaken in Boston, Massachusetts, Melbourne, Australia and four English
cities. This paper presents the findings from England, where information was
collected from 131 respondents and their key-workers about the circumstances
and problems that contributed to homelessness. Two-thirds of the respondents
had never been homeless before. The many reasons why they became homeless
involved interactions between personal disadvantages and weaknesses, negative
events and inadequate welfare support services. For some, their behaviour
rather than external factors triggered homelessness. Other cases involved
deficiencies with the administration of services and social security payments,
the failure or limitations of agencies to detect and respond effectively to
vulnerability, and poor collaboration or information co-ordination among
housing providers and welfare agencies.
Article 4
Martha R. Burt (2001) Homeless families,
singles, and others: Findings from the 1996 national survey of homeless
assistance providers and clients, Housing
Policy Debate, 12:4, 737-780, DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2001.9521428.
Abstract: The first question people typically ask about homelessness is, “How many
people are homeless?” After that, questions usually turn to characteristics: “What
are they like?” Basic demographic characteristics such as sex, age, family
status, and race have always been of interest, in part because the homeless
population appears to be very different from the general public and even from
most poor people who are housed with respect to these characteristics. Often,
because these differences are so dramatic, demographic characteristics are overinterpreted
as representing the reasons for homelessness. But as various studies have
documented, most demographic factors quickly disappear as proximate causes when
other factors representing personal vulnerabilities are available for
examination. The underlying causes of homelessness, the structural
conditions of housing and labor markets that turn vulnerabilities into loss of
housing, do not lie within individuals at all and are thus difficult to include
in analyses based on individual data.
Article 5
Lee, B.A. 2004. "The Geography of Homelessness in
American Communities: Concentration or Dispersion?" City & Community 3(1) March: 3-27.
Abstract: Few
recent studies of homelessness have focused on the distribution of the
phenomenon across different types of community contexts. Nevertheless, claims
are often made about the decline of urban skid rows and the increasing spatial
ubiquity of the homeless population. Motivated by these claims, our research
analyzes 1990 Census S-night data at multiple geographic levels to determine
whether homeless people remain locationally concentrated or have become more
dispersed in the contemporary United States. Data from the 2000 Census, though
limited in scope, are briefly examined as well. We find that the “visible”
homeless are overrepresented in metropolitan and urban portions of the nation,
in central cities of metropolitan areas, and in a minority of neighborhoods
within these areas. Such an uneven distribution, which favors the concentration
over the dispersion perspective, often takes a polynucleated form in large
cities. Forces shaping the geography of homelessness are discussed, as are the
policy implications and methodological caveats associated with our results.
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