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Paths To Homelessness

Extreme Poverty And The Urban Housing Crisis

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-367-29783-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Erscheinungstermin: 09.11.2020
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The major theme in this book is that people are homeless because of structural arrangements and trends that result in extreme impoverishment and a shortage of affordable housing in U.S. cities. It explains the economic and historical causes of homelessness with accounts of individuals and families.

Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780367297831
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-367-29783-1
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Erscheinungstermin: 09.11.2020
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2020
  • Produktform: Kartoniert
  • Gewicht: 410 g
  • Seiten: 210
  • Format (B x H): 152 x 237 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt

Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

Timmer, Doug A

Eitzen, D. Stanley

Talley, Kathryn D.

Overview -- Understanding Homelessness: Industrial and Urban Decline -- The Root Causes of Homelessness in American Cities -- 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 Childern -- 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