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Providing Shelter For The Homeless: Faith-Based Organizations As Instruments Of The Public Good, Elizabeth D. Fredericksen, Stephanie L. Witt
Providing Shelter For The Homeless: Faith-Based Organizations As Instruments Of The Public Good, Elizabeth D. Fredericksen, Stephanie L. Witt
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Networked public service delivery requires attention to accountability and implementation in the public interest. Using the case of transitional housing in a western US community, we review the challenges of goal incongruence between network members and the resulting management problems. In addition, this case illustrates the role that local governments may play in promoting the primacy of one network member over others through collaborations, contract arrangements and nonmonetary resources and the resulting political and judicial difficulties. The complexity of networked service delivery is compounded when the individual missions of network members supersede public policy goals. In many communities, FBOs, as …