Book Review - Housing, Homelessness, and Social Policy in the Urban North by Julia Christensen, Sally Carraher, Travis Hedwig and Steven Arnfjord (Eds.), 2024
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Christensen et al.’s edited volume, Housing, Homelessness, and Social Policy in the Urban North (University of Toronto Press, 2024), critically examines homelessness, challenging traditional approaches and advocating for context-specific solutions. Through case studies from the Canadian North, Alaska, and Greenland, the book explores how historical and structural factors perpetuate homelessness in the face of urbanization and social policy. Organized into three regional sections, it critiques interventions that focus mainly on larger urban centers, neglecting rural communities impacted by colonial policies. The authors argue against one-size-fits-all solutions, promoting culturally sensitive approaches tailored to specific contexts. Key themes include the regional geography of homelessness, definitional challenges of home, rural-urban mobility, welfare colonialism, and the adaptation of Housing First initiatives. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of community-based support structures, often overshadowed by external solutions. This volume is essential for understanding homelessness through a nuanced lens that incorporates cultural and contextual factors.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".