Paths To Homelessness
Extreme Poverty And The Urban Housing Crisis
Westview Press Inc
1st Edition
Published on 24. August 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
210 pages
978-0-8133-0783-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book is the first to combine a cogent explanation of the economic and historical causes of homelessness with accounts of individuals and families on the streets, in soup lines, and in shelters. The human side of the story, told from ethnographies conducted in three diverse citiesChicago, Denver, and Tampashows that there is no culture of poverty that makes people poor, just as there is no culture of homelessness that leaves people without shelter. Instead, the authors show that large numbers of people became homeless through the processes of urban and industrial decline. }This book is the first to combine a cogent explanation of the economic and historical causes of homelessness with accounts of individuals and families on the streets, in soup lines, and in shelters. The human side of the story, told from ethnographies conducted in three diverse citiesChicago, Denver, and Tampashows that there is no culture of poverty that makes people poor, just as there is no culture of homelessness that leaves people without shelter. Instead, the authors show that large numbers of people became homeless through the processes of urban and industrial decline.Homelessness is largely an urban phenomenon.
It increased dramatically when cities witnessed the simultaneous loss of low-income housing and good-paying industrial jobs. However, the increase in the number of homeless people does not suggest a special social problemarising from the character of individualsbut is the result of social and economic transformations in American cities since the late 1970s.In this book the words of the homeless tell the stories of people who were making it before but eventually fell into circumstances of extreme poverty. The many paths taken to homelessness, revealed in their stories, speak to the changing conditions of inequality in the United States today and the need for new public policies. }
It increased dramatically when cities witnessed the simultaneous loss of low-income housing and good-paying industrial jobs. However, the increase in the number of homeless people does not suggest a special social problemarising from the character of individualsbut is the result of social and economic transformations in American cities since the late 1970s.In this book the words of the homeless tell the stories of people who were making it before but eventually fell into circumstances of extreme poverty. The many paths taken to homelessness, revealed in their stories, speak to the changing conditions of inequality in the United States today and the need for new public policies. }
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8133-0783-1 (9780813307831)
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Doug A. Timmer | D. Stanley Eitzen
Paths To Homelessness
Extreme Poverty And The Urban Housing Crisis
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09/1994
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Westview Press Inc
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Content
Overview; Understanding Homelessness: Industrial and Urban Decline; The Root Causes of Homelessness in American Cities; Paths To Homelessness; The Old Homeless: Sam Sheldon and Henry Walsh; Work Versus WelfareA 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; Conclusion; The Complex and Simple Reality of Homelessness Making Homelessness Go Away: Politics and Policy