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Understanding homelessness in Ireland since independence
Front Cover -- Understanding Homelessness in Ireland since Independence: Decades in the Making -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Timeline -- Introduction: Colonial inheritances -- 'Homelessness' prior to Independence -- Vagrants and the workhouse -- The vagrant question -- The institutionalisation of marginality -- Charitable organisations -- Housing -- Urban housing conditions -- Conclusion -- 1 Poor Laws, the family economy and housing policy, 1922-​1948 -- Introduction -- Political and economic context -- Land and the family economy
Homelessness, public assistance and institutional provision after Independence -- The Commission on the Relief of the Sick and Destitute Poor, including the Insane Poor -- Public rental housing post-​Independence -- Private rented housing post-​Independence -- Urban slums -- Differential rents in public housing -- Tenant purchase schemes -- Emigration and homelessness -- The 1948 White Paper: Housing: A Review of Past Operations and Immediate Requirements -- Conclusion -- 2 The end of the Poor Laws, economic development and modernisation, 1948-​1963 -- Introduction
Political and economic context -- Emigration -- Casuals and the Inter-​Departmental Committee on County Homes -- Composition of those experiencing homelessness -- The Health Act, 1953 and Casuals -- 'Blackguards' and the law -- Social security and public assistance -- Housing policy, the Capital Investment Advisory Committee and economic development -- Local authority housing -- Tenant purchase -- Housing tenure in Ireland, the decline of private rented housing and ending rent control -- Conclusion
3 Housing policy, housing agitation and the emergence of the homelessness sector, 1964-​1981 -- Introduction -- Political and economic context -- Closing the Casual Wards -- Deinstitutionalisation and homelessness -- Attitudes to homelessness, vagrancy and the law -- The emergence of youth homelessness -- Social movements and civic society -- Dublin Housing Action Committee -- Campaigning for the single homeless -- Adult homelessness in the early 1970s: extent and service provision -- Housing policy -- White Paper: Housing -​ Progress and Prospects -- White Paper: Housing in the Seventies
Kenny Report -- Local authority housing -- Differential rent -- Tenant purchase schemes -- Abolition of domestic rates -- Private rented housing -- Emigration -- Conclusion -- 4 Two housing bills and one act, 1981-​1988 -- Introduction -- Political and economic context -- The level of homelessness and conditions in residential services for those experiencing homelessness -- Social movements and civil society -- Growing visibility of youth homelessness in the 1980s -- Housing supply and allocations -- Increased housing supply and homelessness
Eoin O'Sullivan, Mike Allen, and Sarah Sheridan.
Includes bibliographical references and index.