Housing the homeless poor : new partnerships among the private, public, and third sectors /

Housing the homeless poor : new partnerships among the private, public, and third sectors /

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Imprint:Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©1990.
Description:1 online resource (vi, 301 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Subject:
Homeless persons -- Housing -- Canada -- Congresses.
Low-income housing -- Canada -- Congresses.
Homeless persons -- Housing.
Low-income housing.
Canada.
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11177212
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Other authors / contributors:Fallis, George, 1947-
Murray, Alex L.
ISBN:9781442675889
1442675888
9780802067227
0802026893
0802067220
9780802026897
1282056247
9781282056244
Notes:Papers originally presented at a symposium sponsored by the Canadian Real Estate Association and the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Restrictions unspecified
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Summary:Multiversities are sprawling conglomerates that provide liberal undergraduate, graduate, and professional education. As well-springs of innovation and ideas, these universities represent the core of society's research enterprise. Multiversities, Ideas, and Democracy forcibly argues that, in the contemporary world, multiversities need to be conceptualized in a new way, that is, not just as places of teaching and research, but also as fundamental institutions of democracy.Building upon the history of universities, George Fallis discusses how the multiversity is a distinctive product of the later twentieth century and has become an institution of centrality and power. He examines five characteristics of our age - the constrained welfare state, the information technology revolution, postmodern thought, commercialization, and globalization - and in each case explains how the dynamic of multiversity research alters societal circumstances, leading to the alteration of the institution itself and creating challenges to its own survival. The character of our age demands reappraisal of the multiversity, Fallis argues, in order to safeguard them from so-called 'mission drift.' Writing from a multi-national perspective, this study establishes how similar ideas are shaping multiversities across the Anglo-American world.Ultimately, Multiversities, Ideas, and Democracy seeks to uncover the ethos of the multiversity and to hold such institutions accountable for their contribution to democratic life. It will appeal to anyone interested in the role of education in society.
Other form:Print version: Housing the homeless and poor. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1990 0802026893 9780802026897
Publisher's no.:420802 CaOOCEL
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / George Fallis and Alex Murray
  • Homelessness : the people / Alex Murray
  • The urban housing market / George Fallis
  • The collapse of the welfare consensus? The welfare state in the 1980s / Ramesh Mishra
  • Social housing in a divided state / Keith G. Banting
  • The private-sector role in low-income housing / Langley Keyes
  • The revolving door : third-sector organizations and the homeless / Jeanne M. Wolfe and William Jay
  • The municipal role in housing the homeless and poor / Tom Carter and Ann McAfee
  • Reflecting on the problems and possibilities / George Fallis and Alex Murray.

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