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This book provides a comprehensive investigation of housing issues for disabled people from a social model perspective. Documenting historical and current trends, it looks at policy, barriers to housing options and meanings of 'home'. Such a review is crucial to understanding the varying housing needs and desires of disabled people, particularly in the current economic climate. The book is a practical resource for housing policy makers and practitioners, and will be of interest to academics and students in the field.
Price: $119.95
Pages: 224
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Policy Press
Publication Date:
20 July 2011
ISBN: 9781847428066
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Housing and homelessness
"This book raises important issues and concerns about current housing policies and practices encountered by increasing numbers of disabled people. It is essential reading for students, researchers, policy makers, professionals, disabled people and disability organisations." Colin Barnes, University of Leeds
Laura Hemingway is Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds, UK. She has taught and researched in the areas of housing and disability since 2003.
Introduction; Housing policy and disability: from past to present; Understanding disability: from 'personal tragedy' to social disadvantage; Housing tenure, supply and the physical environment; The role of attitudes and assumptions; Affordability issues; A holistic view of the meaning of 'home'; Housing, disability and revisiting the social model.