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Poverty and Homelessness

Author : Noël Merino
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poverty and Homelessness written by Noël Merino and published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2009 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Alliance to End Homelessness states that there are 564,708 people experiencing homelessness on any given night in the U.S. The primary source writings in this anthology have been selected to provide your readers with a broad range of viewpoints on poverty and homelessness, including whether government assistance is working or making things worse. The essays in each chapter of this book represent contrasting viewpoints on government social assistance programs and income inequality. Students are encouraged to see the validity of divergent opinions, crucial to the development of critical thinking skills. An important question about the topic is presented in each chapter, and the viewpoints that follow are organized based on their response to the question. Fact boxes summarize important information for researchers, and an extensive bibliography is included.

Poverty and the Homeless

Author : Mary E. Williams
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poverty and the Homeless written by Mary E. Williams and published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2004 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poverty and homelessness are sadly evident in America's cities-and even in some of the nation's rural areas. Contributors examine the root causes of poverty and what should be done to help the poor and the homeless.

Paths To Homelessness

Author : Doug A Timmer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100031281X
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Paths To Homelessness written by Doug A Timmer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Visible Poor

Author : Joel Blau
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199938083
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book The Visible Poor written by Joel Blau and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-05-13 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking an in-depth look at the causes of homelessness in the United States, Joel Blau disproves the convenient myths that most homeless are crazy, drug addicts, or lazy misfits who brought their suffering upon themselves. He shows that the current crisis was an inevitable result of economic and political changes in recent decades, systematically reviewing the explanations offered by researchers, politicians and pundits, from the deinstitutionalization of mental patients in the 1960s to the gentrification of urban neighborhoods in the 1970s to the evisceration of federal spending on social welfare in the 1980s. Blau argues that current government policies at every level are mired in pointless headcounting and quick-fix solutions that only push the homeless out of sight without touching the underlying causes. He advocates social reforms ranging form a national standard for welfare benefits, a higher minimum wage, and establishment of a social sector for non-profit, affordable housing. A powerful contribution to public debate on homelessness, The Visible Poor must be read by concerned citizens as well as by policy-makers and advocates.

Homeless

Author : Ella Howard
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812208269
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Homeless written by Ella Howard and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-01-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The homeless have the legal right to exist in modern American cities, yet antihomeless ordinances deny them access to many public spaces. How did previous generations of urban dwellers deal with the tensions between the rights of the homeless and those of other city residents? Ella Howard answers this question by tracing the history of skid rows from their rise in the late nineteenth century to their eradication in the mid-twentieth century. Focusing on New York's infamous Bowery, Homeless analyzes the efforts of politicians, charity administrators, social workers, urban planners, and social scientists as they grappled with the problem of homelessness. The development of the Bowery from a respectable entertainment district to the nation's most infamous skid row offers a lens through which to understand national trends of homelessness and the complex relationship between poverty and place. Maintained by cities across the country as a type of informal urban welfare, skid rows anchored the homeless to a specific neighborhood, offering inhabitants places to eat, drink, sleep, and find work while keeping them comfortably removed from the urban middle classes. This separation of the homeless from the core of city life fostered simplistic and often inaccurate understandings of their plight. Most efforts to assist them centered on reforming their behavior rather than addressing structural economic concerns. By midcentury, as city centers became more valuable, urban renewal projects and waves of gentrification destroyed skid rows and with them the public housing and social services they offered. With nowhere to go, the poor scattered across the urban landscape into public spaces, only to confront laws that effectively criminalized behavior associated with abject poverty. Richly detailed, Homeless lends insight into the meaning of homelessness and poverty in twentieth-century America and offers us a new perspective on the modern welfare system.

A Nation In Denial

Author : Alice S. Baum
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429722621
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book A Nation In Denial written by Alice S. Baum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive review of the scientific evidence that up to 85 percent of all homeless adults suffer the ravages of substance abuse and mental illness, resulting in the social isolation that has been the hallmark of homelessness in the United States since colonial days. .

Criminal of Poverty

Author : Tiny, aka Lisa Gray-Garcia
Publisher : City Lights Books
ISBN 13 : 1931404194
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Criminal of Poverty written by Tiny, aka Lisa Gray-Garcia and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven-year-old Lisa becomes her mother’s primary support when they face the prospect of homelessness. As Dee, a single mother, struggles with the demons of her own childhood of neglect and abuse, Lisa has to quickly assume the role of an adult in an attempt to keep some stability in their lives. “Dee and Tiny” ultimately become underground celebrities in San Francisco, squatting in storefronts and performing the “art of homelessness.” Their story, filled with black humor and incisive analysis, illuminates the roots of poverty, the criminalization of poor families, and their struggle for survival.

Social Welfare

Author : Melissa J. Doak
Publisher : Gale Cengage
ISBN 13 : 9781414448671
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Social Welfare written by Melissa J. Doak and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the social and moral issues surrounding America's homeless.

Disrupting Homelessness

Author : Laura Stivers
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 145141286X
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Disrupting Homelessness written by Laura Stivers and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disrupting Homelessness unmasks the futile assumptions of our present approaches to homelessness and suggests ways in which Christians and Christian communities can create a prophetic social movement to end poverty and homelessness. Some Christian organizations focus on fixing the person and the behaviors that contribute toward homelessness. Others promote home ownership for low-income households. Stivers criticizes both approaches and assesses to what extent these approaches buy into our culture's dominant ideologies on housing and homelessness, and whether they promote justice and liberation for the least well off. She then outlines an advocacy approach for churches to address the multiple causes of homelessness and prophetically to aim to make a home for all in God's just and compassionate community.

Confronting Homelessness

Author : David Wagner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781626373914
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (739 download)

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Download or read book Confronting Homelessness written by David Wagner and published by . This book was released on 2015-10 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not only does a thorough job of outlining the history of homelessness in the United States, but also brings attention to the minimal progress the United States has made in addressing this issue.¿ ¿Contemporary Sociology An excellent book; one of the best on the topic. Highly recommended. --Choice A provocative and unique reconsideration of the movement to combat mass homelessness in the United States in the past decades. --Robert Hayes, founder, National Coalition for the Homeless Whose fault is homelessness? Thirty years ago the problem exploded as a national crisis, drawing the attention of activists, the media, and policymakers at all levels¿yet the homeless population endures to this day, and arguably has grown. David Wagner offers a major reconsideration of homelessness in the US, casting a critical eye on how we as a society respond to crises of inequality and stratification. Incorporating local studies into a national narrative, Wagner probes how homelessness shifted from being the subject of a politically charged controversy over poverty and social class to posing a functional question of social-service delivery. At the heart of his analysis is a provocative insight into why we accept highly symbolic policies that dampen public outrage, but fail to address the fundamental structural problems that would allow real change.

The New American Poverty

Author : Institute for Children and Poverty Staff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780964178427
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (784 download)

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Download or read book The New American Poverty written by Institute for Children and Poverty Staff and published by . This book was released on 1995-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New Poverty

Author : Ralph Da Costa Nunez
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Poverty written by Ralph Da Costa Nunez and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 1996-03-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: However, if they are deprived of these opportunities, another generation of children will grow up without homes and without the traditional values of work, responsibility, and independence.

Poor and Homeless in the Sunshine State

Author : James Wright
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351498037
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Poor and Homeless in the Sunshine State written by James Wright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A place like Orlando, Florida is not transformed from swampland to sprawling metropolis through Peter Pan-like flights of fancy, but through theme park expansions requiring developmental schemes that are tough minded and often worsen relationships between the wealthy and the poor. The homeless arrive with their own hopes and illusions, which are soon shattered. The rest of the local population makes its peace with the system. Meanwhile the homeless are reduced to advocacy models that neither middle- nor working-class folks much worry about. They are modern members of Ellison's "invisible men" but they comprise a racial and social mixture unlike any other in the American landscape.This book is primarily about the dark side of this portrait?the poor, near-poor, homeless, and dispossessed who live in the midst of this verdant landscape. The phrase "down and out," has been used to describe people who are destitute or penniless since the late nineteenth century. Here the term is used in a more expansive sense, as synonymous with anyone who lives near, at, or over the edge of financial catastrophe.

Family Poverty and Homelessness in New York City

Author : Ralph da Costa Nunez
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781137520302
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Family Poverty and Homelessness in New York City written by Ralph da Costa Nunez and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Family Poverty and Homelessness in New York City , Nunez and Sribnick explore the world of New York's poor children and families, from the era of European settlements to the present day. The book examines successes and failures of past efforts, providing historical context often lacking in contemporary policy debates.

Homelessness and Its Consequences

Author : Rosemarie T. Downer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136780238
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Homelessness and Its Consequences written by Rosemarie T. Downer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2002.

Struggling in the Land of Plenty

Author : Anne R. Roschelle
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1793600775
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Struggling in the Land of Plenty written by Anne R. Roschelle and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the conclusion of the twentieth century, the US economy was booming, but the gap between the rich and poor widened significantly in the 1990s, poverty rates among women and children skyrocketed, and there was an unprecedented rise in familial homelessness. Based on a four-year ethnographic study, Anne R. Roschelle examines how socially structured race, class, and gender inequality contributed to the rise in family homelessness and the devastating consequences for parents and their children. Struggling in the Land of Plenty analyzes the appalling conditions under which homeless women and children live, the violence endemic to their lives, the role of the welfare state in perpetrating poverty, and their never-ending struggle for survival.

Making Room

Author : Brendan O'Flaherty
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674543423
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Making Room written by Brendan O'Flaherty and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mentally ill people turned out of institutions, crack-cocaine use on the rise, more poverty, public housing a shambles: as attempts to explain homelessness multiply so do the homeless--and we still don't know why. The first full-scale economic analysis of homelessness, Making Room provides answers quite unlike those offered so far by sociologists and pundits. It is a story about markets, not about the bad habits or pathology of individuals. One perplexing fact is that, though homelessness in the past occurred during economic depressions, the current wave started in the 1980s, a time of relative prosperity. As Brendan O'Flaherty points out, this trend has been accompanied by others just as unexpected: rising rents for poor people and continued housing abandonment. These are among the many disconcerting facts that O'Flaherty collected and analyzed in order to account for the new homelessness. Focused on six cities (New York, Newark, Chicago, Toronto, London, and Hamburg), his studies also document the differing rates of homelessness in North America and Europe, and from one city to the next, as well as interesting changes in the composition of homeless populations. For the first time, too, a scholarly observer makes a useful distinction between the homeless people we encounter on the streets every day and those "officially" counted as homeless. O'Flaherty shows that the conflicting observations begin to make sense when we see the new homelessness as a response to changes in the housing market, linked to a widening gap in the incomes of rich and poor. The resulting shrinkage in the size of the middle class has meant fewer hand-me-downs for the poor and higher rents for the low-quality housing that is available. O'Flaherty's tightly argued theory, along with the wealth of new data he introduces, will put the study of homelessness on an entirely new plane. No future student or policymaker will be able to ignore the economic f