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Obszary pomocy społecznej dla bezdomnych w Rzymie
Social assistance areas for the homeless in Rome

Author(s): Krzysztof Trębski, Mária Nemčíková
Subject(s): Welfare systems, Rural and urban sociology, Welfare services
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
Keywords: phenomenon of homelessness; homeless people in Rome; forms of help in getting out of homelessness;

Summary/Abstract: One of the most important challenges facing social work in the 21st century is the problemof homelessness, because despite technological progress and economic development, it stilloccurs among people in all cultures and latitudes. The phenomenon of homelessness cannotbe identified only with the lack of a flat or a permanent place of residence, because it hasrepercussions on many levels of existence of the affected person. Homelessness drawsattention to the occurrence of disproportions and differences in wealth and the distributionof goods between individual social strata, as well as to the nature of the reactions and actionsthat society takes in relation to this phenomenon.This study is only a small contribution to starting a discussion on these issues and presentsthe situation of homelessness in Rome, where their situation constitutes a daily challengefor many governmental, non-governmental and ecclesial organizations and for the manyvolunteers of this almost three million urban agglomeration

  • Issue Year: XIII/2023
  • Issue No: I
  • Page Range: 63-76
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish