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Czech adoption of "housing first" policy through strategizing of a new type of policy actor

Autoři: Synková Hana

Rok: 2019

Druh publikace: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Strana od-do: nestránkováno

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Jazyk	Název	Abstrakt	Klíčová slova
eng	Czech adoption of "housing first" policy through strategizing of a new type of policy actor	Paper Short abstract: The paper looks at how the activist network (academics/ activists/ social workers/ people in housing need) balances its activities and appearance to be able to introduce the innovative housing policy among the more traditional actors. Paper Long abstract: The idea that families and people in housing need should not be placed in shelters, but in standard housing with social work support originated in the USA. It has been gradually adopted by European actors, among others by the group of young academic activists from the Czech Republic. In my contribution I deal not only with the acceptability of policy that was categorized as too radical for many of the established actors but with the conditions of acceptability of new types of policy actors. Academic activists established an activist network campaigning for the right to housing and invited people in housing need to be members of the network. This further contributed to the perception of the policy being too "activist" even among some NGOs. The paper analyses how the network balances its activist and expert practice to influence actors in the field and contribute to the acceptability of the policy.	Czech Republic; housing; social policy; activism