Homelessness: a critical introduction

Cameron Parsell’s book, Homelessness: A Critical Introduction, contends that homelessness constitutes evidence of societal failure. He argues that homelessness is a policy problem we can solve by choosing how we structure our societies. Fundamentally, how the assumptions and judgments we make about what society should look like, and for whom we believe society has the responsibility to care, impact how we construct the problem of homelessness and what we do in response to it. Parsell provides rich, integrated and well-evaluated evidence for the causal processes that generate homelessness, the adverse impacts of homelessness on the people who experience it, and the kinds of responses necessary for societies to eliminate it.