Rural Homelessness: Issues, Experiences and Policy Responses

From: Rural Sociology | Date: June 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Rural Homelessness: Issues, Experiences and Policy Responses, by Paul Cloke, Paul Milbourne and Rebekah Widdowfield. Bristol, UK: The Policy Press, 2002. 245 pp. $32.50 (paperback). ISBN: 1-86134-284-5.

Though the book jacket suggests that the text "explores the shifting context of homelessness in relation to rural areas in the UK and other countries in the developed world," this statement is misleading. What the authors do is thoroughly explore the context of homelessness in rural areas of the UK and provide a model for the exploration of rural homelessness in the developed world and ...

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