Preventing Youth Homelessness through Social Procurement in Construction: A Capability Empowerment Approach
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چکیده
Homelessness is a serious and growing problem in the UK, exacerbated by COVID-19 crisis. The latest figures estimate that 160,000 households are at risk of worst forms homelessness. Employment widely recognised as being critical to reducing homelessness, yet there has been no research into role construction industry, major UK employer, can play this problem. aim paper address gap knowledge contribute emerging social procurement debate exploring employment Mobilising Sen’s Nussbaum’s capabilities empowerment approach, an in-depth case study presented program Wales, which was aimed supporting young people who had experienced or were Contributing value drawing on documentary analysis interviews with homeless homelessness went through program, findings indicate these became empowered ways reduced their It concluded framework valuable explaining how industry reduce risks for disadvantaged youth care-experienced background known criminal justice system.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Sustainability
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2071-1050']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su13063127