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The introduction presents the book’s scope and content, clarifies the main research questions, and describes research methods and the kind of data collected. These include: a survey of significant shelter providers in the metropolitan Athens area; qualitative information from interviews with central welfare authorities, local welfare agencies and voluntary organisations, policy documents, and the authors’ fieldnotes; and three case studies and focus groups with NGOs regarding their experience with and their proposals for expanding supported housing schemes in Greece. EU-SILC and census data are used to document the rise of poverty and homelessness in metropolitan cities of South Europe . For detailed maps of poverty and homelessness across Athenian neighbourhoods, data come from a variety of registries and the 2011 census on population and housing conditions.
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Arapoglou, V.P., Gounis, K. (2017). Introduction. In: Contested Landscapes of Poverty and Homelessness In Southern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62452-5_1
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