Currently and throughout history there has been immense poverty, and homelessness due to a \u00a0a variety of structural causes including a shortage of affordable, health care, housing units in the US, \u00a0cutting of social services and etc . Common responses to homelessness combine punitive legislation with support for what Lyon Callo calls “normalization” efforts. Why has social inequality been accepted as \u00a0a normal part of society? \u00a0He explains how our society is governed a domination model and a hegemonic process. He explains that shelter language and practices produce, and maintain homelessness. \u00a0Widely accepted discourses \u00a0include self-help and biomedicalization. \u00a0Efforts to solve the homelessness problem include a variety of techniques for detecting, diagnosing and treating disorders within individual homeless people. “Self blaming and self-governing people can, scarcely be expected to spend time developing strategies for collectively resisting systemic inequalities.” (Lyon-Callo 154) Not all homeless people give into these self-reform methods, and instead resist all efforts to be treated. \u00a0People who resist are deemed “difficult” \u00a0simply because they are not complacent and obedient with their treatment plan. \u00a0Shelter staff though they may want to end homelessness they are often condition to think it is a individual not structural issue. \u00a0As a result they respond by functioning within the neoliberal continuum of care discourses. Shelter staff are taught to govern and manage homeless people. \u00a0Failing to \u00a0address systemic and discursive inequalities \u00a0and instead devoting efforts to detecting deviancy and instead training homeless people remains ineffective in decreasing homelessness. \u00a0He explains that to eliminate poverty, we need social movements aimed at denaturalizing current dominant discourses about the rights of capital and redistributing the nations wealth in a more equitable fashion. We need collective political movements making existing jobs pay living wages, with just workers rights and environmental protection laws.<\/p>\n
Lyon-Callo, Vincent.\u00a0Inequality, Poverty, and Neoliberal Governance: Activist Ethnography in the Homeless Sheltering Industry<\/i>. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 2004. Print.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Currently and throughout history there has been immense poverty, and homelessness due to a \u00a0a variety of structural causes including a shortage of affordable, health care, housing units in the US, \u00a0cutting of social services and etc . Common responses to homelessness combine punitive legislation with support for what Lyon Callo calls “normalization” efforts. Why … Continue reading SYSTEMIC INEQUALITY MAINTAINS HOMELESSNESS<\/span>