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Title Using evidence to end homelessness / edited by Lígia Teixeira and James Cartwright ; with a foreword by David Halpern.

Publication Info. Bristol ; Chicago, IL : Policy Press, 2020.

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 Axe JSTOR Open Ebooks  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 1 online resource (274 pages) : illustrations
text txt rdacontent
still image sti rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Front cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword -- 1. The Impact Manifesto: doing the right things to end homelessness for good -- 2. A new approach to ending homelessness -- 3. Reform in the private rented sector -- 4. Houses, not homelessness -- 5. Loosening poverty's grip -- 6. A cross-party approach to homelessness -- 7. Contrasting traditions in homelessness research between the UK and US -- 8. Why evidence matters -- 9. A public health approach to homelessness
10. Data and evidence: what is possible in public policy? -- 11. Using evidence in social policy: from NICE to What Works -- 12. Charities and donors in evidence systems -- 13. Why transparency matters to knowledge mobilisation -- 14. Afterword -- Index -- Back cover
Summary Available open access under CC-BY-NC license. This book brings together the insights and experiences of a diverse group of of government leaders, academics and third sector practitioners to set out new evidence-based strategies and solutions to end homelessness for good.
Note Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 21, 2020).
Subject Homelessness -- Great Britain.
Homelessness -- Government policy.
Itinérance -- Grande-Bretagne.
Itinérance -- Politique gouvernementale.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy.
Homelessness
Homelessness -- Government policy
Great Britain https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdmp7p3cx8hpmJ8HvmTpP
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Teixeira, Lígia, editor.
Cartwright, James, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Teixeira, Lígia Using Evidence to End Homelessness Bristol : Policy Press,c2020
ISBN 1447354109 (electronic book)
9781447352877 (ePub ebook)
1447352874
1447352866
9781447352860
9781447354109 (electronic bk.)
Standard No. AU@ 000067148707
UKMGB 019787256
AU@ 000071589355
AU@ 000074658983

 
    
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