The New School Graduate Program in International Affairs

Begins	23 Apr 2009 - 12:00pm
Ends	23 Apr 2009 - 1:40pm
Location	6 East 16th Street, Room 912

HOMELESSNESS IN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE: WHAT THE U.S. COULD LEARN FROM OTHERS

Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts
OPEN CLASSROOM EVENT

Date/Time: Thursday, April 23, 12-1:40pm
Location: 6 East 16th Street, Room 912

 

Faculty: Jurgen von Mahs
LURB 3003: Engaging Urban Homelessness
TOPIC:  HOMELESSNESS IN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE: WHAT THE U.S COULD LEARN FROM OTHERS

In this class session we discuss homelessness and homeless policy in international comparative perspective to ascertain what the U.S. could learn from other industrialized nation states, especially in the context of improving and expanding its patchy social safety net and fragile, if not counterproductive welfare arrangements. A look at Central and Northern Europe nation states in particular will allow us to start thinking about reforms.