Doug A. Timmer, D. Stanley Eitzen, and Kathryn D. Talley.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Boulder :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Westview Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1994.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xi, 210 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-199) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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.
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OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Paths to homelessness.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Homelessness-- United States, Case studies.
Poverty-- United States, Case studies.
Unemployed-- United States, Case studies.
Urban poor-- Housing-- United States, Case studies.
Armut.
Chômeurs-- États-Unis-- Cas, Études de.
Homelessness.
Obdachlosigkeit.
Pauvres en milieu urbain-- Logement-- États-Unis-- Cas, Études de.