A Theoretical Understanding of Housing and Homelessness: Federal Homelessness and Housing Policy Through the Lenses of Punctuated Equilibrium Theory and Advocacy Coalition Frameworks

Poverty and Public Policy

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 67-87

  Beard, Virginia ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

advocacy coalitions; homelessness; housing; incarceration; mental illness; policy; punctuated equilibrium; substance abuse

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019778429     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19442858     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pop4.16     Document Type: Article

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