
Housing the Homeless
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 15. April 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
478 pages
978-1-4128-4768-1 (ISBN)
Description
Homelessness has become a lasting issue of vital social concern. As the number of the homeless has grown, the complexity of the issue has become increasingly clear to researchers and private and public service providers. The plight of the homeless raises many ethical, anthropological, political, sociological, and public health questions. The most serious and perplexing of these questions is what steps private, charitable, and public organizations can take to alleviate and eventually solve the problem. The concept of homelessness is difficult to define and measure. Generally, persons are thought to be homeless if they have no permanent residence and seek security, rest, and protection from the elements. The homeless typically live in areas that are not designed to be shelters (e.g., parks, bus terminals, under bridges, in cars), occupy structures without permission (e.g., squatters), or are provided emergency shelter by a public or private agency. Some definitions of homelessness include persons living on a short-term basis in single-room-occupancy hotels or motels, or temporarily residing in social or health-service facilities without a permanent address. Housing the Homeless is a collection of case studies that bring together a variety of perspectives to help develop a clear understanding of the homelessness problem. The editors include information on the background and politics of the problem and descriptions of the current homeless population. The book concludes with a resource section, which highlights governmental policies and programs established to deal with the problem of homelessness.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
686 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4128-4768-1 (9781412847681)
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Persons
Jon Erickson is coordinator of the Environmental Management option in the Master of Public Administration program at Kean University and former research associate at the Center for Urban Policy Research, part of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Policy Research at Rutgers University. Most recently, he helped prepare a report on Sustainability as Partner to Economic Regeneration: The Impact Assessment of the New Jersey State Plan. Charles Wilhelm served as project coordinator at the Capital Budget Homeless Housing Program in New York in the 1980s.
Content
List of Exhibits, Acknowledgments, About the Contributors, Introduction, Introduction to the Transaction Edition, I. Images of the Homeless, 11. Background and Politics, Ill. The Importance of Numbers, IV. Who Are the Homeless and Why?, V. Solutions to the Problem, VI. Resources, Bibliography, Index