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Rights As A Functional Guide For Service Provision In Homeless Advocacy Creating Healthy Communities: Ending Homelessness, Nestor M. Davidson
Rights As A Functional Guide For Service Provision In Homeless Advocacy Creating Healthy Communities: Ending Homelessness, Nestor M. Davidson
Faculty Scholarship
Rights-based approaches to advocacy on behalf of homeless persons have long sought to vindicate important dignitary, liberty, and equality interests, as well as establish to entitlements to housing, mental health, substance abuse, and other services. This advocacy has had some success in shaping the systems that define the interaction between homeless persons and the state. Rights paradigms, however, can be undermined by the day-to-day reality of the lives of homeless individuals and families that are often shaped by profound need less for protection from the state than for meaningful support, and entitlement advocacy remains circumscribed by the reality of severely …
Affordable Housing, Land Tenure, And Urban Policy: The Matrix Revealed, J. Peter Byrne, Michael Diamond
Affordable Housing, Land Tenure, And Urban Policy: The Matrix Revealed, J. Peter Byrne, Michael Diamond
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This Article describes the policies advanced by housing programs and shows where tension between the policies and programs exists. This Articles also attempts to organize and clarify the relationships among various goals of subsidized housing policy and the elements of programs adopted to meet them. The Article then proceeds by detailing eight possible objectives of subsidized housing and considers how different housing programs may or may not accomplish these objectives.