Paths To Homelessness
Extreme Poverty And The Urban Housing Crisis
1st Edition
Published on 15. September 1994
Book
Hardback
210 pages
978-0-8133-0782-4 (ISBN)
Description
Combining an explanation of the structural and historical causes of homelessness with accounts of individuals and families on the streets, in soup lines and in shelters, this book is based on ethnographies conducted in the cities of Chicago, Denver and Tampa.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8133-0782-4 (9780813307824)
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Additional editions
Kathryn D. Talley | D. Stanley Eitzen
Paths To Homelessness
Extreme Poverty And The Urban Housing Crisis
Book
08/1994
1st Edition
Westview Press Inc
€57.13
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Content
Part 1 Overview: understanding homelessness - industrial and urban decline; the root causes of homelessness in American cities. Part 2 Paths to homelessness: 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. Conclusion: the complex and simple reality of homelessness; making homelessness go away - politics and policy.