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- catalog contributor b2572828.
- catalog created "1989.".
- catalog date "1989".
- catalog date "1989.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1989.".
- catalog description "1. The human faces of homelessness -- An old face -- A new face -- A woman's face -- A dead face -- A child's face -- Imagine -- 2. Homeless in America: The new American nightmare -- Definitions and numbers of homeless -- The bottom line -- Is homelessness a new problem? -- Is homelessness a growing problem? -- How did it come to be? -- 3. The root causes: housing and poverty -- The situation in the large cities -- Where has the low-income housing gone? -- 4. Who are the homeless? -- One thousand homeless people -- Homeless families -- The lone homeless: Women and children -- Lone adult men: The elderly -- Lone adult men: The veterans -- Lone adult men: The disabled -- Lone adult men: Employment status -- Racial and ethnic composition -- Education -- Family background and affiliations -- Geography -- Criminal background -- Extreme poverty -- Nature and duration of homelessness -- Disabilities -- Reasons for homelessness -- 5. How people become homeless -- The poverty line -- Resources of the homeless -- The dynamics of homelessness -- But why now? -- 6. Drunk, stoned, crazy, and sick -- Alcoholism -- Drug abuse -- Mental illness -- Deinstitutionalization -- Alcohol, drug abuse, and mental illness: the overlap -- Physical illness -- 7. To promote the social welfare -- Barriers to participation -- Some obvious barriers -- Some not-so-obvious barriers -- The National HCH experience -- Some tentative conclusions -- 8. Who can be helped, and how? -- Homelessness as a poverty problem -- What does homelessness cost society? -- Prevention: Rent insurance -- Homelessness as a housing problem -- Short-term amelioration -- Coordination of services -- The social welfare system -- Alcoholism -- Mental illness -- Conclusion.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 159-164.".
- catalog extent "xix, 170 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0202303640".
- catalog identifier "0202303659 (pbk.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Social institutions and social change".
- catalog issued "1989".
- catalog issued "1989.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : A. de Gruyter,".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "362.5/0973 20".
- catalog subject "HV4505 .W75 1989".
- catalog subject "Homelessness United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The human faces of homelessness -- An old face -- A new face -- A woman's face -- A dead face -- A child's face -- Imagine -- 2. Homeless in America: The new American nightmare -- Definitions and numbers of homeless -- The bottom line -- Is homelessness a new problem? -- Is homelessness a growing problem? -- How did it come to be? -- 3. The root causes: housing and poverty -- The situation in the large cities -- Where has the low-income housing gone? -- 4. Who are the homeless? -- One thousand homeless people -- Homeless families -- The lone homeless: Women and children -- Lone adult men: The elderly -- Lone adult men: The veterans -- Lone adult men: The disabled -- Lone adult men: Employment status -- Racial and ethnic composition -- Education -- Family background and affiliations -- Geography -- Criminal background -- Extreme poverty -- Nature and duration of homelessness -- Disabilities -- Reasons for homelessness -- 5. How people become homeless -- The poverty line -- Resources of the homeless -- The dynamics of homelessness -- But why now? -- 6. Drunk, stoned, crazy, and sick -- Alcoholism -- Drug abuse -- Mental illness -- Deinstitutionalization -- Alcohol, drug abuse, and mental illness: the overlap -- Physical illness -- 7. To promote the social welfare -- Barriers to participation -- Some obvious barriers -- Some not-so-obvious barriers -- The National HCH experience -- Some tentative conclusions -- 8. Who can be helped, and how? -- Homelessness as a poverty problem -- What does homelessness cost society? -- Prevention: Rent insurance -- Homelessness as a housing problem -- Short-term amelioration -- Coordination of services -- The social welfare system -- Alcoholism -- Mental illness -- Conclusion.".
- catalog title "Address unknown : the homeless in America / James D. Wright.".
- catalog type "text".