Den strukturella hemlösheten : en kvalitativ innehållsanalys av Malmö stads styrdokument för arbetet med hemlöshet

Sammanfattning: Malmö city has decided to change their routines regarding aid to housing. The routines now contain a division between who is entitled to get aid from social services and who is not, that is between people in social homelessness and people in structural homelessness. Prior to the change, this division did not exist. The aim of this study was therefore to explore how the governing documents legitimizes the work with homelessness regarding structural homelessness. The method chosen for this study was qualitative content analysis. We analyzed six different governing documents with a span of a little over a hundred pages, in order to find recurring themes based on our question formulations. In analyzing our results, we applied framing theory and a theory of accounts, to deepen our understanding of how the management of structurally homeless people are described and legitimized. This study found that by contrasting structurally homeless people with socially homeless people, the structurally ones were written out of the social work’s responsibility. Through the usage of market terms, such as compete and demand, the structurally homeless people were seen as a problem for the market to solve and not through welfare services. This study therefore has attempted to highlight how the governing documents by framing the problem with structural homelessness in a certain way, shaped the legitimization of it’s solutions.