A Hand up not a Hand Out': The Labour Governments and Street Homelessness, 1997-2010

2008年，鲍里斯约翰逊在他的市长演讲中承诺要结束伦敦的露宿者，但自2010年以来，露宿者的数量增加了169%。相反，2002年，工党政府宣布全国街头无家可归者人数减少了三分之二，而且在其任期内，这一数字继续下降。本项目审查了新工党采取的措施，使这一急剧减少，并将探讨为什么它没有持续下去，它将探讨工党所采用的相互关联的战略，在长期支持重新安置的无家可归者，“自信的外展”和共同--与执法部门协调街头文化，以便在工党更广泛的社会排斥议程中定位露宿政策。短期解决方案，将无家可归者存放在宿舍，并建立在St Mungos（2018）的同行领导的研究基础上，该研究强调了支持服务的失败，社会孤立和不适当的住宿是导致返回粗糙睡眠的原因。鉴于未能持续减少街头无家可归者，报告将评估关于强制性战略成功与否的不同意见（Randall and Brown 2002）菲茨帕特里克（2001 & 2005）与志愿机构的中央目标设定和监管（Pierce 2010，2006年5月）。将研究更广泛的政治和经济背景的影响，探索布莱尔和布朗领导下的第三条道路政策与政治气候、住房和劳动力市场变化之间的相互作用。该项目的核心是决心恢复通过口述历史档案和访谈，将流浪者自己的声音融入到叙事中。在进入学术界之前，我花了十年时间与无家可归的人一起工作，为露宿者开展项目，随后为伦敦地方当局管理住房咨询服务。将利用丰富的个人联系，与国家和地方政府以及志愿部门的主要从业人员进行访谈。这个项目遵循从我的硕士论文的影响，寮屋咨询服务的看法和提供单身无家可归的人inLondon在20世纪80年代。

In 2008 Boris Johnson pledged in his Mayoral address to bring an end to rough sleeping in London, but since 2010 the numbers of rough sleepers has increased by 169%. In contrast, in 2002 the Labour administration was able to declare that it had reduced street homelessness nationally by two-thirds, and the numbers continued to decline during the remainder of their term in office. This project examines the measures undertaken by New Labour that enabled this dramatic reduction and will explore the reasons why it was not sustained.It will explore the efficacy of the inter-linked strategies employed by Labour, in areas such as the long term support of resettled homeless people, 'assertive outreach' and co-ordination with law enforcement over street culture in order to locate rough sleeping policy within Labour's wider social exclusion agenda.It will evaluate the critique that Labour's programme provided only short-term solutions by warehousing homeless people in hostels, and build on the peer-led research by St Mungos (2018) that highlighted failures in support services, social isolation and inappropriate accommodation as causes of a return to rough sleeping. In light of the failure to sustain the reduction in street homelessness, it will assess the contrasting views on the success of coercive strategies (Randall and Brown 2002; Fitzpatrick (2001 & 2005) and centralised target-setting and supervision of voluntary sector agencies (Pierce 2010, May 2006).The impact of the wider political and economic context will be examined, exploring the interactions between in third way policies under Blair and Brown and changes in both the political climate and the housing and labour markets.Central to the project is a determination to restore the voices of homeless people themselves to the narrative through use of oral history archives and interviews. Prior to entering academia I spent ten years working with homeless people, running projects for rough sleepers and subsequently managing a housing advice service for a London local authority. Utilising a wealth of personal contacts, interviews with key practitioners in national and local government and thevoluntary sector will be undertaken. This project follows on from my Master's dissertation on the impact of the Squatters Advisory Service on both perception of and provision for single homelessness people inLondon in the 1980s.