The most accurate and comprehensive picture of homelessness to date, this study offers a powerful explanation of its causes, proposes short- and long-term solutions, and documents the striking contrasts between the homeless of the 1950s and 1960s and the contemporary homeless population, which is younger and contains more women, children, and blacks.
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Homelessness is presented here in its historical context, although that is not, as the subtitle suggests, the primary focus of the book. Using recent studies along with his own study of those living in shelters and on the streets in Chicago, Rossi addresses the question: Who are the homeless? His report is an academic analysis of the homeless and the extremely poor and provides extensive comparative research data on homelessness: age, gender, marital status, income, appearance, health, alcoholism, drug use, and criminal record. He provides the raw data and its intrepretation from which can be gleaned the complexity of the problem and how it has changed over the decades. This is much more objective and comprehensive than Jonathan Kozol's Rachel and Her Children ( LJ 3/15/88). Rossi makes useful suggestions for solutions, many of which, he agrees, would require considerable legislation as well as increased financial commitment. Highly recommended.
- Anne Twitchell, EPA Headquarters Lib., Washington, D.C.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Anne Twitchell, EPA Headquarters Lib., Washington, D.C.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Peter H. Rossi is Stuart A. Rice Professor of Sociology and Director of the Social and Demographic Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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Extreme poverty and homelessness are useful abstractions that only dimly reflect the concrete human details of the extremely poor and the homeless. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dependent adult members, homeless study, national homeless population, cubicle hotels, domiciled population, homeless studies, everyday favors, dormitory shelters, winter survey, current homeless, fall survey, total homeless population, warming centers, new homeless, transient center, shelter sample, casual count, precariously housed, unattached persons, conventional dwellings, shelter operators, literal homelessness, hidden homeless, shelter survey, transient homeless Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Skid Row, General Assistance, Chicago Homeless Study, New York, Current Population Survey, United States, Social Security, Los Angeles, Great Depression, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Chicago Urban Family Life Study, Supplemental Security Income, American Indians, Illinois Department of Public Aid, Creative Non-Violence, General Relief, Salvation Army, Buffalo Transient Center, Kansas City, Monthly Labor Force Survey, Bureau of the Census, Maintaining Social Ties, Nels Anderson, New England, Sun Belt New!
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Extreme poverty and homelessness are useful abstractions that only dimly reflect the concrete human details of the extremely poor and the homeless. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dependent adult members, homeless study, national homeless population, cubicle hotels, domiciled population, homeless studies, everyday favors, dormitory shelters, winter survey, current homeless, fall survey, total homeless population, warming centers, new homeless, transient center, shelter sample, casual count, precariously housed, unattached persons, conventional dwellings, shelter operators, literal homelessness, hidden homeless, shelter survey, transient homeless Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Skid Row, General Assistance, Chicago Homeless Study, New York, Current Population Survey, United States, Social Security, Los Angeles, Great Depression, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Chicago Urban Family Life Study, Supplemental Security Income, American Indians, Illinois Department of Public Aid, Creative Non-Violence, General Relief, Salvation Army, Buffalo Transient Center, Kansas City, Monthly Labor Force Survey, Bureau of the Census, Maintaining Social Ties, Nels Anderson, New England, Sun Belt New!
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