Address unknown : the homeless in America
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Address unknown : the homeless in America
（Social institutions and social change : an Aldine de Gruyter series of texts and monographs）
Aldine de Gruyter, c1989
- : hard
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 159-164
Includes indexes
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Description
Describes the nature of homelessness, its multiple causes, and its demographic, economic, sociological, and social policy antecedents. Finding the origins of the problem to be social and political rather than economic, Wright (human relations, Tulane) outlines remedies based on existing and modified
Table of Contents
- One: The Human Faces of Homelessness
- Two: Homeless in America: The New American Nightmare
- Three: The Root Causes: Housing and Poverty
- Four: Who Are the Homeless? 1
- Five: How People Become Homeless
- Six: Drunk, Stoned, Crazy, and Sick
- Seven: To Promote the Social Welfare
- Eight: Who Can Be Helped, and How?
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