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Governing “The Homeless” in English Homelessness Legislation: Foucauldian Governmentality and the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017

Pages 259-278 | Received 07 Feb 2019, Accepted 26 Feb 2020, Published online: 01 Jan 2021

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