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The politics of benevolence: Homele...

Murphy, Stacey Heneage.

The politics of benevolence: Homeless policy in San Francisco.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The politics of benevolence: Homeless policy in San Francisco.
Author:	Murphy, Stacey Heneage.
Description:	233 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Ananya Roy.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-09, Section: A, page: 3775.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-09A.
Subject:	Sociology, Public and Social Welfare.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3331727
ISBN:	9780549832577

The politics of benevolence: Homeless policy in San Francisco.
Murphy, Stacey Heneage.

The politics of benevolence: Homeless policy in San Francisco. - 233 p.

Adviser: Ananya Roy.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2008.

Faced with the highest per-capita rate of homelessness in the country, San Francisco has struggled to address its homeless problem for more than twenty years. Until recently, the city relied primarily upon criminalization tactics to manage the problem, issuing criminal citations for sleeping outside, loitering, panhandling, and other activities. In 2003, the newly elected mayor, Gavin Newsom, ushered in a new policy regime designed to "truly help" the City's homeless: converting cash assistance into concrete housing and services, phasing out troubled emergency shelters, and involving the community in large, city-coordinated volunteer initiatives. Using the case of San Francisco, my research examines this approach as an emerging paradigm in American poverty management, which I characterize as a shift from punitive neoliberal measures toward a liberal politics of benevolence.

ISBN: 9780549832577Subjects--Topical Terms:

212442
Sociology, Public and Social Welfare.

The politics of benevolence: Homeless policy in San Francisco.
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