{"product_id":"housing-homeless-persons","title":"Housing Homeless Persons","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe size of Britain's homeless population has risen considerably since the introduction of the Housing (Homeless) Persons Act 1977. Recently, the Government announced plans radically to reform the existing legislation, a recognition of the political sensitivity of homelessness and the need for a coherent policy to tackle the problem. Housing the homeless is an issue which embraces housing, family and social security policy; it has also generated considerable interest for public lawyers, as the scope of discretionary powers provided by the Act has provoked a great deal of litigation in the High Court. In the original study the author presents a detailed empirical study of three local authorities implementation of the homelessness legislation. He focuses in particular on the processes of administrative decision-making at the lowest level, and reveals that `law' plays a very limited role in shaping administrative policy decisions. Placing law within a context of administrative action, the author illustrates how administrative law must be understood by reference to the complex institutional structures with which it is daily involved.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ian Loveland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43573943533629,"sku":"9780198258766","price":260.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9780198258766.jpg?v=1788530325","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/housing-homeless-persons","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}