Address Unknown: The Homeless in AmericaDescribes 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 |
Contents
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Preface | xliii |
Acknowledgments | li |
The Human Faces of Homelessness | 1 |
Homeless in America The New American Nightmare | 17 |
The Root Causes Housing and Poverty | 37 |
Who Are the Homeless | 55 |
How People Become Homeless | 81 |
Drunk Stoned Crazy and Sick | 95 |
To Promote the Social Welfare | 115 |
Who Can Be Helped and How? | 135 |
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