"This manuscript assembles the leading scholarship in housing, homelessness and social policy in urban locales across Alaska, the Canadian North, and Greenland, examining the ways in which housing insecurity and homelessness provide a critical lens on the social dimensions of northern urbanization, and also present key considerations in the development of effective and sustainable social policy for these areas. Through various case studies and reflections across northern urban contexts, chapter contributors explore the ...
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"This manuscript assembles the leading scholarship in housing, homelessness and social policy in urban locales across Alaska, the Canadian North, and Greenland, examining the ways in which housing insecurity and homelessness provide a critical lens on the social dimensions of northern urbanization, and also present key considerations in the development of effective and sustainable social policy for these areas. Through various case studies and reflections across northern urban contexts, chapter contributors explore the myriad ways in which northern urban places foster new forms of community-building, health and social service provision and social inclusion for people experiencing homelessness. At the same time, the northern urban regions and community contexts included in this book have significant differences in terms of governance, scale, settler-Indigenous relations and social welfare provision--differences that provide useful and insightful comparisons in our efforts to identify commonalities and ways forward."--
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