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New Public Governance, the Third Sector, and Co-Production
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New Public Governance, the Third Sector, and Co-Production

by Victor Pestoff, Taco Brandsen, Bram Verschuere
June 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
406 pages
14h 46m
English
Routledge
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11  Co-Management toSolve Homelessness

Wicked Solutions for Wicked Problems

Kerry Brown, Robyn Keast,Jennifer Waterhouse, Glen Murphyand Myrna Mandell

INTRODUCTION

While governments are heavily engaged in developing social policy responses to address intractable, complex, “wicked” issues, such as poverty, homelessness, drug addiction and crime, resolving these issues in the long-term through government action has been problematic. Homelessness is a critical area to develop new approaches for securing better outcomes for members of society, as housing is considered a basic right for citizens (Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, 2008) and homelessness is a problem that has outweighed the resources and policy intent dedicated to it by ...

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ISBN: 9780415897136