Where Have All the Homeless Gone?
Where Have All the Homeless Gone?

Author: Anthony Marcus

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9781845450502

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For a decade, from 1983 to 1993, homelessness was a major concern in the United States. In 1994, this public concern suddenly disappeared, without any significant reduction in the number of people without proper housing. By examining the making and unmaking of a homeless crisis, this book explores how public understandings of what constitutes a social crisis are shaped. Drawing on five years of ethnographic research in New York City with African Americans and Latinos living in poverty, Where Have All the Homeless Gone? reveals that the homeless "crisis" was driven as much by political misrepresentations of poverty, race, and social difference, as the housing, unemployment, and healthcare problems that caused homelessness and continue to plague American cities.

Where Have All the Homeless Gone?
Where Have All the Homeless Gone?

Author: Anthony Marcus

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9781845451011

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For a decade, from 1983 to 1993, homelessness was a major concern in the United States. In 1994, this public concern suddenly disappeared, without any significant reduction in the number of people without proper housing. By examining the making and unmaking of a homeless crisis, this book explores how public understandings of what constitutes a social crisis are shaped. Drawing on five years of ethnographic research in New York City with African Americans and Latinos living in poverty, Where Have All the Homeless Gone? reveals that the homeless "crisis" was driven as much by political misrepresentations of poverty, race, and social difference, as the housing, unemployment, and healthcare problems that caused homelessness and continue to plague American cities.

Permanent Supportive Housing
Permanent Supportive Housing

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2018-08-11

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 0309477042

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Chronic homelessness is a highly complex social problem of national importance. The problem has elicited a variety of societal and public policy responses over the years, concomitant with fluctuations in the economy and changes in the demographics of and attitudes toward poor and disenfranchised citizens. In recent decades, federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, and the philanthropic community have worked hard to develop and implement programs to solve the challenges of homelessness, and progress has been made. However, much more remains to be done. Importantly, the results of various efforts, and especially the efforts to reduce homelessness among veterans in recent years, have shown that the problem of homelessness can be successfully addressed. Although a number of programs have been developed to meet the needs of persons experiencing homelessness, this report focuses on one particular type of intervention: permanent supportive housing (PSH). Permanent Supportive Housing focuses on the impact of PSH on health care outcomes and its cost-effectiveness. The report also addresses policy and program barriers that affect the ability to bring the PSH and other housing models to scale to address housing and health care needs.

Homelessness, Health, and Human Needs
Homelessness, Health, and Human Needs

Author: Institute of Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 1988-02-01

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0309038324

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There have always been homeless people in the United States, but their plight has only recently stirred widespread public reaction and concern. Part of this new recognition stems from the problem's prevalence: the number of homeless individuals, while hard to pin down exactly, is rising. In light of this, Congress asked the Institute of Medicine to find out whether existing health care programs were ignoring the homeless or delivering care to them inefficiently. This book is the report prepared by a committee of experts who examined these problems through visits to city slums and impoverished rural areas, and through an analysis of papers written by leading scholars in the field.

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

Author: Anthony M. Casale

Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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From the genesis of the Woodstock concert in the mind of a small-time promoter to the final strains of Jimi Hendrix playing the "The Star-Spangled Banner", author Anthony Casale and Philip Lerman take us backstage at what would become the most talked-about, read-about, argued about, gatherin of the psychedelic sixties. But that's jsut the beginning. From there, Casale and Lerman follow the roller-coaster ride of the protesting youth as they move into the mainstream. Among the huge casts of characters are Abbie Hoffman, Peter Max, Ken Kesey, and other famous and not-so-famous individuals whos gripping, poignant tales show how they coped with changing times. Through Watergate and the end of the Vietnam War, through disco and the oil crisis, through the Reagan era and the birth of yuppiedom, this book tracks a generation coming to grips with itself. From flower power to complacent comfort, here is a generation at a crossroads as it moves into the 1990s.

The Librarian's Guide to Homelessness
The Librarian's Guide to Homelessness

Author: Ryan Dowd

Publisher: ALA Editions

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9780838916261

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"Homelessness is a perennial topic of concern at libraries. In fact, staff at public libraries interact with almost as many homeless individuals as staff at shelters do. In this book Dowd, executive director of a homeless shelter, spotlights best practices drawn from his own shelter's policies and training materials" --

Kidwatching in Josie's World
Kidwatching in Josie's World

Author: Neva Ann Medcalf

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13:

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Over twenty years of work and research with homeless children comes together in a scholarly work that puts a real face on the issue of homelessness, especially for children. Most people do not realize that children are among the thousands that are homeless and are the fastest growing segment of the homeless population. The public tends to think about the "bum" on the corner with the cardboard sign or those sleeping under the bridges who accost them for a handout. They do not realize that homelessness has an enormous and negative impact on growth, development, and learning for children. This is an issue that affects schools, communities, and society-at-large. Through qualitative observations in a one-room classroom in a homeless shelter and in classrooms of an elementary school located in a subsidized housing project, the development and use of language among homeless children, classroom interactions between students and teachers, and information regarding the effects of homelessness on children are closely examined. This book re-educates teachers, educators, and the general public, in order to spur a new, more accurate mindset about the reality and consequences of homelessness. The work's larger purpose is to bring about compassionate implementation of the solutions necessary to eradicate this problem.