Women's Homelessness and Welfare States

Joanne Bretherton; Lars Benjaminsen; Nicholas Pleace

Women's Homelessness and Welfare States

Joanne Bretherton, Lars Benjaminsen, Nicholas Pleace

Centre for Housing Policy

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Abstract

This chapter discusses the relationships between women's homelessness and European welfare states. Exploring existing ideas about how the characteristics of welfare states may influence homelessness, this chapter argues that the predominant thesis about the relationships between homelessness and welfare regimes has neglected gender difference. The extent to which welfare states within different welfare regimes may have an independent effect on the nature and extent of women’s homelessness is discussed. It is argued that while there is an ongoing need to better understand how welfare states may influence women’s homelessness, there are enough data to suggest that women’s experience of homelessness can be at least partially determined by the design of welfare states. However, it is also the case that multiple, diverse variables may influence women’s experience of homelessness, how homeless women interact with welfare states, and also how welfare states themselves operate.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Women's Homelessness in Europe
Editors	Paula Mayock, Joanne Bretherton
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	75-102
Number of pages	27
ISBN (Print)	978-1-137-54515-2
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2016

Keywords

Homelessness
Gender

1 Network

Women's Homelessness in Europe Network (WHEN) (External organisation)
Joanne Bretherton (Vice-Chair) & Paula Mayock (Vice-Chair)
1 Jan 2012 → …
Activity: Membership › Network

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Women's Homelessness in Europe Network (WHEN) (External organisation)

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