Description |
xi, 210 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-199) and index. |
Contents |
Understanding homelessness: industrial and urban decline -- The root causes of homelessness in American cities -- The "old" homeless: Sam Sheldon and Henry Walsh -- Work versus welfare, a false choice: Sue Jackson -- The economic marginality of young families: Sara, Dave, Elizabeth, and Joshua -- Left behind in a de-industrialized, low-wage economy: Bob and Nancy Shagford and their children -- Eviction: Debbie Jones and her children -- "Social service bureaucracy and homelessness: Diane Moore -- Runaway and throwaway teens: Jeffrey Giancarlo -- A black teenage single mother and her son: Michelle and Andre -- Battered women and homelessness: Barbara Evans -- The complex and simple reality of homelessness -- Making homelessness go away: politics and policy. |
Subject |
Homelessness -- Case studies.
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Poverty -- Case studies.
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Urban poor -- Housing -- Case studies.
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Unemployed -- Case studies
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Added Author |
Eitzen, D. Stanley.
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Talley, Kathryn D.
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ISBN |
081330783X (pbk) |
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0813307821 (alk. paper) |
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081330873X (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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