Characteristics and Improvement of Homelessness Governance in Korea - Focused on Outreach and Happy House -

Abstract

Since the IMF, the problem of homelessness has emerged as a serious social problem. There have been many research and policy attempts in the past to cope with this. Many improvements and progress have been made in terms of policies and beneficiaries. This study is based on the necessity of the change of perspective in the situation where the homeless problem still can not be solved. Many developed countries are making efforts to adopt the homeless policy as a governance member of the government and the private network, or even the homeless, in terms of governance. There is no systematic analysis in Korea. As a result of analyzing outreach activities and happiness house projects, two of the most important projects of Korean homelessness and governance, strong network governance has been formally established but internal governance has not yet been achieved Outreach activities), and some strong network governance patterns, but a combination of weak network governance elements (happiness house business) appeared. The research significance of this paper is to provide new perspectives and criteria to evaluate the homeless policy in a governance manner. And this study has realistic and policy implications to diagnose problems and to suggest improvement directions to develop existing homeless governance into strong network governance.