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A Nation In Denial: The Truth About Homelessness
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- ISBN-100813382459
- ISBN-13978-0813382456
- PublisherWestview Press
- Publication dateMay 4, 1993
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
- Print length247 pages
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- Publisher : Westview Press (May 4, 1993)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 247 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0813382459
- ISBN-13 : 978-0813382456
- Lexile measure : 1610L
- Item Weight : 12 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,751,417 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #5,377 in Social Services & Welfare (Books)
- #7,008 in Sociology (Books)
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Donald Burnes and his wife are the cofounders of the Burnes Institute for Poverty Research at the Colorado Center on Law and Policy. Previously, Don helped create the Burnes Center on Poverty and Homelessness at the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work, where he also served as an adjunct faculty member and a scholar-in-residence. A local philanthropist concerned with the issues of homelessness and housing, he served on the State Interagency Advisory Group on Homelessness for Governor John Hickenlooper and served in a similar position for Governor Bill Ritter. He has been a member of Denver’s Road Home Advisory Commission and the Colorado Housing and Homelessness Funders Collaborative.
Don has also been an executive director for various nonprofits, a historian, a researcher and educational policy consultant for the US Congress, a prolific writer, a philanthropic consultant, and active student of and policy analyst around issues of homelessness and poverty for 40 years. He is the coauthor with Alice Baum of A Nation in Denial: The Truth about Homelessness, and is the coeditor of and a contributing author to Ending Homelessness: Why We Haven’t, How We Can. His third book, Journeys out of Homelessness: The Voices of Lived Experience, was published in October 2019. His new book, co-authored with Kevin Adler, Amanda Banh, and Andrijana Bilbija, When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and The Role We can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America, has just been published. In addition, he has written numerous articles about homelessness and has made many presentations, including a TED Talk, about the topic. He received his BA from Princeton, his MAT from Washington University in St. Louis, and his PhD in the politics of education from Columbia University.

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