Housing Policy, Urbanization, and the Production of Homelessness in Greenland

• Published in: International Journal on Homelessness
• Main Authors: Julia Christensen, Steven Arnfjord, Marie-Louise Aastrup, Eleanor Stephenson
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; French; Japanese; Portuguese
• Published: Western Libraries, The University of Western Ontario 2024
• Subjects: homelessness; greenland; inuit; centralization; urbanization; welfare colonialism; Societies: secret; benevolent; etc; HS1-3371; Communities. Classes. Races; HT51-1595; Sociology (General); HM401-1281; Greenland; Nuuk; greenlander*; greenlandic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5206/ijoh.2023.3.14324; https://doaj.org/article/c5e13209457f4df29b0b18b40e76d62d

Visible homelessness is on the rise in Nuuk, Greenland. Since the early 2000s, the number of people staying at the municipal shelter, accessing support programs, and registering as homeless in the community has, by a qualitative estimate grown. Attention has also been given to the growing number of...