Homelessness, Housing, and Mental Illness

Following a discussion of theoretical approaches to understanding community and social interaction and an historical overview of shifting forms of institutional help, from early asylums to state hospitals to modem shelters, chapters discuss research results through a series of thematic debates on a range of key topics: residential preferences, social relations within residential settings, substance use, mental health, relations with outside community, experiences of selfdetermination and empowerment in residential settings, and housing loss. [...] the text misses an opportunity to grapple with the racialized dimensions of homeless management.