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Permanent Supportive Housing

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309477077
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Permanent Supportive Housing written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronic homelessness is a highly complex social problem of national importance. The problem has elicited a variety of societal and public policy responses over the years, concomitant with fluctuations in the economy and changes in the demographics of and attitudes toward poor and disenfranchised citizens. In recent decades, federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, and the philanthropic community have worked hard to develop and implement programs to solve the challenges of homelessness, and progress has been made. However, much more remains to be done. Importantly, the results of various efforts, and especially the efforts to reduce homelessness among veterans in recent years, have shown that the problem of homelessness can be successfully addressed. Although a number of programs have been developed to meet the needs of persons experiencing homelessness, this report focuses on one particular type of intervention: permanent supportive housing (PSH). Permanent Supportive Housing focuses on the impact of PSH on health care outcomes and its cost-effectiveness. The report also addresses policy and program barriers that affect the ability to bring the PSH and other housing models to scale to address housing and health care needs.

Down and Out in America

Author : Peter H. Rossi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022616232X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Down and Out in America written by Peter H. Rossi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Homelessness Is a Housing Problem

Author : Gregg Colburn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520383796
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Homelessness Is a Housing Problem written by Gregg Colburn and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using rich and detailed data, this groundbreaking book explains why homelessness has become a crisis in America and reveals the structural conditions that underlie it. In Homelessness Is a Housing Problem, Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States. In a departure from many analytical approaches, Colburn and Aldern shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area. Using accessible statistical analysis, they test a range of conventional beliefs about what drives the prevalence of homelessness in a given city—including mental illness, drug use, poverty, weather, generosity of public assistance, and low-income mobility—and find that none explain the regional variation observed across the country. Instead, housing market conditions, such as the cost and availability of rental housing, offer a far more convincing account. With rigor and clarity, Homelessness Is a Housing Problem explores U.S. cities' diverse experiences with housing precarity and offers policy solutions for unique regional contexts.

Homelessness, Health, and Human Needs

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309038324
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Homelessness, Health, and Human Needs written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1988-02-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have always been homeless people in the United States, but their plight has only recently stirred widespread public reaction and concern. Part of this new recognition stems from the problem's prevalence: the number of homeless individuals, while hard to pin down exactly, is rising. In light of this, Congress asked the Institute of Medicine to find out whether existing health care programs were ignoring the homeless or delivering care to them inefficiently. This book is the report prepared by a committee of experts who examined these problems through visits to city slums and impoverished rural areas, and through an analysis of papers written by leading scholars in the field.

Helping America's Homeless

Author : Martha R. Burt
Publisher : The Urban Insitute
ISBN 13 : 9780877667018
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Helping America's Homeless written by Martha R. Burt and published by The Urban Insitute. This book was released on 2001 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longtime Urban Institute researcher Martha Burt and her co-authors provide an in-depth analysis of homelessness, exploring issues such as how many homeless people there are in America, where they are, why they became homeless, how long their homelessness lasts, the different ways programs in different communities are helping the homeless, and how policymakers have approached the problem. Finally, they consider what societies may be willing to do reduce the probability that their members will become homeless. c. Book News Inc.

Down & Out, on the Road

Author : Kenneth L. Kusmer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195160963
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Down & Out, on the Road written by Kenneth L. Kusmer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A definitive history of homelessness in the United States..." -- page 4 of cover.

Homelessness in America

Author : Michele Wakin
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
ISBN 13 : 1440874859
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Homelessness in America written by Michele Wakin and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2022-02-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title provides a one-stop resource for understanding the crisis of homelessness in the United States. It covers risk factors for homelessness, societal attitudes about the homeless, and public and private resources designed to prevent homelessness and help those in need. There are a number of questions to be answered when addressing the subject of homelessness in the United States. What are the primary causes of homelessness? What are the economic and socioeconomic factors that have an impact on homeless people? What demographic trends can be identified in homeless populations? Is the U.S. addressing the needs and concerns of homeless people adequately? Where are the areas with the highest homeless populations? What can be done to help homeless people who live with mental illness and/or addiction problems? Homelessness in America: A Reference Handbook answers all of these questions and more. It thoroughly examines the history of homelessness in the U.S., shining a light on the key issues, events, policies, and attitudes that contribute to homelessness and shape the experience of being homeless. It places special emphasis on exploring the myriad problems that force people into homelessness, such as inadequate levels of affordable housing, struggles with substance abuse, and gaps in the U.S.' social welfare system. In addition, it explains why some demographic groups are at heightened risk of homelessness.

The Excluded Americans

Author : William Tucker
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Excluded Americans written by William Tucker and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Citizen Hobo

Author : Todd DePastino
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226143805
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Citizen Hobo written by Todd DePastino and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years following the Civil War, a veritable army of homeless men swept across America's "wageworkers' frontier" and forged a beguiling and bedeviling counterculture known as "hobohemia." Celebrating unfettered masculinity and jealously guarding the American road as the preserve of white manhood, hoboes took command of downtown districts and swaggered onto center stage of the new urban culture. Less obviously, perhaps, they also staked their own claims on the American polity, claims that would in fact transform the very entitlements of American citizenship. In this eye-opening work of American history, Todd DePastino tells the epic story of hobohemia's rise and fall, and crafts a stunning new interpretation of the "American century" in the process. Drawing on sources ranging from diaries, letters, and police reports to movies and memoirs, Citizen Hobo breathes life into the largely forgotten world of the road, but it also, crucially, shows how the hobo army so haunted the American body politic that it prompted the creation of an entirely new social order and political economy. DePastino shows how hoboes—with their reputation as dangers to civilization, sexual savages, and professional idlers—became a cultural and political force, influencing the creation of welfare state measures, the promotion of mass consumption, and the suburbanization of America. Citizen Hobo's sweeping retelling of American nationhood in light of enduring struggles over "home" does more than chart the change from "homelessness" to "houselessness." In its breadth and scope, the book offers nothing less than an essential new context for thinking about Americans' struggles against inequality and alienation.

Skid Road

Author : Josephine Ensign
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142144013X
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Skid Road written by Josephine Ensign and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brother's Keeper -- Skid Road -- The Sisters -- Ark of Refuge -- Shacktown -- Threshold -- State of Emergency -- Epilogue.

Malign Neglect

Author : Jennifer R. Wolch
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 : 9780787900014
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Malign Neglect written by Jennifer R. Wolch and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1994-06-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does this work? I'm trying to find out if this catalog generator will work. It should work. It worked at Roger's Office This DB Features * lots of enhancements * easy catalog generation * great stuff! Let's hope it works. To test the DB TIMING: ASAP AUDIENCE: All JB

Way Home

Author : Corcoran Gallery of Art
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Way Home written by Corcoran Gallery of Art and published by . This book was released on 1999-12 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eye-opening book documents the plight of the homeless in cities and towns across America and points the way to lasting solutions. Royalties will benefit the National Alliance to End Homelessness. 116 photos, 32 in full color, by well-known photographers including Mary Ellen Mark, Jodi Cobb, Betsy Frampton, and Diana Walker.

Homelessness in New York City

Author : Thomas J. Main
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479896470
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Homelessness in New York City written by Thomas J. Main and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- The beginnings of homelessness policy under Koch -- The development of homelessness policy under Koch -- Homelessness policy under Dinkins -- Homelessness policy under Giuliani -- Homelessness policy under Bloomberg -- Homelessness policy under De Blasio -- Conclusion.

Homelessness in America Today

Author : Jennifer Bringle
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1435894510
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Homelessness in America Today written by Jennifer Bringle and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on homelessness in the United States and different viewpoints for dealing with the issue.

Homeless in America

Author : Carol L. M. Caton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780197707104
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Homeless in America written by Carol L. M. Caton and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.

Homelessness in America

Author : Stephen Eide
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538159589
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Homelessness in America written by Stephen Eide and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last thirty years have witnessed an urban renaissance in America. Major cities have managed to drive down the murder rate, improve the schools, restore the built environment, and revitalize their economies. Middle class families are putting down roots in neighborhoods once given up for dead. But solutions to homelessness have eluded even the most successful cities. While the South Bronx was once synonymous across the globe for “slum,” now, San Francisco and Los Angeles are just as internationally notorious for their homelessness crises. Indeed, the same cities with the worst homelessness crises rank among America’s most successful. One of the crisis’ more perplexing features is how cities that have met with so much success with respect to economic development, crime and public education have failed to even ease their homelessness crisis, much less end it. In Homelessness in America, Stephen Eide examines the history, governmental and private responses, and future prospects of this intractable challenge. The “chronic” nature of the challenge should be understood, he argues, by reference to American history and American ideals. The history of homelessness is bound up with industrialization and urbanization, the closing of the West, the Great Depression, and the post WWII decline and subsequent revival of great American cities. Though we’ve used different terms (“tramp” “hobo” “bum”) at other times, something like homelessness has always been with us and the debate over causes and solutions has always involved conflicts over fundamental values. After explaining why homelessness persists in America and correcting popular misconceptions about the issue, Eide offers concrete recommendations for how we can do better for the homeless population. Homelessness in America engages readers by answering the most common questions their audience brings to the topic and exploring other questions that are no less important for being not as commonly asked. Homelessness intersects with multiple other policy areas: education, urban development, criminal justice reform, mental health. By exploring the intersection of homelessness with so many other policy areas, this book aspires to provide a comprehensive account of the challenge.