Introduction: Why social work, housing, and homelessness?

Hagan, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1184-229X and Ahmed, Anya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6164-0656 (2025) Introduction: Why social work, housing, and homelessness? In: Why social work, housing, and homelessness? Routledge, London, pp. 1-13. ISBN 9781003434696

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Abstract

The profound economic difficulties currently faced by many in the UK have made an already precarious housing market even more troublesome for many individuals and families. As Sillman (2018) reports: When families are primarily focused on issues of housing it becomes harder to engage them on other pertinent issues relating to safeguarding their children.