{"id":13,"date":"2011-01-28T00:08:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T08:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/poli350a\/?p=13"},"modified":"2011-01-28T00:08:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T08:08:07","slug":"should-municipalities-provide-free-counselling-as-a-policy-tool-to-address-homelessness-in-class-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/poli350a\/2011\/01\/28\/should-municipalities-provide-free-counselling-as-a-policy-tool-to-address-homelessness-in-class-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Should municipalities provide free counselling as a policy tool to address homelessness? (In-class Exercise)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Homelessness is a complex public policy problem that encompasses a broad variety of elements. This past week I asked you to use Schneider and Ingram (1993) social constructions of target populations framework to evaluate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishsocialnetworks.org\/pdfs\/Counselling%20and%20Homelessness.pdf\">the case study I posted<\/a> on Vista for an in-class assignment &#8211; would providing free counselling sessions to homeless folks work as a policy tool (realistically speaking). How is homelessness socially constructed and how does this social construction affect policy choices? I asked you to email me your responses, and I will be doing a summary. But in the mean time, feel free to keep the discussion going on this blog entry.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homelessness is a complex public policy problem that encompasses a broad variety of elements. This past week I asked you to use Schneider and Ingram (1993) social constructions of target populations framework to evaluate the case study I posted on Vista for an in-class assignment &#8211; would providing free counselling sessions to homeless folks work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2391,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assignments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/poli350a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/poli350a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/poli350a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/poli350a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/poli350a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/poli350a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/poli350a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/poli350a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/poli350a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/poli350a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}