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Homelessness in Dublin: An Irish Urban Disorder

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  • Kevin C. Kearns

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. Urban homelessness in Dublin has emerged as one of Ireland's most serious socioeconomic problems. Etiological explanations for the estimated 1,200 homeless individuals in the capital range from personal problems to the structure of Irish society. Empirical examination reveals that many Irish are drawn into the homeless network through personal crises such as poor health, alcoholism, economic deprivation, and psychiatric disturbances. However, it is the inequitable social, economic, political, and legislative system which ordinarily entraps them in this deprived state. Thus the causes of Irish homelessness are fundamentally structural. The Irish Government has no policy or program for assisting the urban homeless. Consequently, they have become wards of charitable agencies ill‐equipped to care properly for them. Reform legislation seems to be needed. But public apathy and prejudice suggests that it will not be enacted soon.

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  • Kevin C. Kearns, 1984. "Homelessness in Dublin: An Irish Urban Disorder," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 43(2), pages 217-233, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ajecsc:v:43:y:1984:i:2:p:217-233
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1536-7150.1984.tb02248.x
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