A01=Charles Wilhelm
A01=Jon Erickson
Alexander Stille
Alice Callahan
Author_Charles Wilhelm
Author_Jon Erickson
Category=JBFC
Category=JBSD
Charles Wilhelm
Chester Hartman
Chicago's Skid Row
Chicago’s Skid Row
Community Service Society
Daniel Kronenfeld
Donald J. Bogue
Ellen L. Bassuk
emergency housing programs
Emergency Shelters
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Federal Emergency Management Administration
Gary Blaise
George Raine
H. Richard Lamb
Harry Murray
Harvey A. Siegal
Homeless Men
Homeless Persons
HUD Report
HUD Study
James Young
Jeff Dietrich
John C. Schneider
John R. Coleman
Jonathan Alter
Kim Hopper
L. Stuart Cox
Lorene Hemphill Stone
Madeleine R. Stoner
Marcia Z. Nelson
Marjorie Hope
Mark J. Stern
Michael H. Phillips
Moderate Rehabilitation Program
Nancy ?. Kaufman
Nikke Finke Greenberg
Patricia Cayo Sexton
Philip Kasinitz
Pine Street Inn
Port Authority Bus Terminal
poverty research
public policy analysis
Public Shelter
qualitative case studies
Richard P. Appelbaum
Roger Sanjek
Rose Anello
S. Anna Kondratas
Shawn Doherty
Shelter Guests
Shelter Managers
Shelter Population
Single Room Occupancy Hotels
Skid Row
Skid Row Alcoholics
Skid Row Area
Skid Row Men
Skid Row Population
social welfare systems
SRO
Street Count
structural causes of homelessness
Susan Agrest
Thomas J. Main
Tillie Shuster
Tom Robbins
urban sociology
Vern E. Smith
Verona Jeter
Welfare Hotels
Younger Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781412847681
- Weight: 612g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Apr 2012
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Homelessness has become a lasting issue of vital social concern. As the number of the homeless has grown, the complexity of the issue has become increasingly clear to researchers and private and public service providers. The plight of the homeless raises many ethical, anthropological, political, sociological, and public health questions. The most serious and perplexing of these questions is what steps private, charitable, and public organizations can take to alleviate and eventually solve the problem. The concept of homelessness is difficult to define and measure. Generally, persons are thought to be homeless if they have no permanent residence and seek security, rest, and protection from the elements. The homeless typically live in areas that are not designed to be shelters (e.g., parks, bus terminals, under bridges, in cars), occupy structures without permission (e.g., squatters), or are provided emergency shelter by a public or private agency. Some definitions of homelessness include persons living on a short-term basis in single-room-occupancy hotels or motels, or temporarily residing in social or health-service facilities without a permanent address. Housing the Homeless is a collection of case studies that bring together a variety of perspectives to help develop a clear understanding of the homelessness problem. The editors include information on the background and politics of the problem and descriptions of the current homeless population. The book concludes with a resource section, which highlights governmental policies and programs established to deal with the problem of homelessness.
Jon Erickson is coordinator of the Environmental Management option in the Master of Public Administration program at Kean University and former research associate at the Center for Urban Policy Research, part of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Policy Research at Rutgers University. Most recently, he helped prepare a report on Sustainability as Partner to Economic Regeneration: The Impact Assessment of the New Jersey State Plan. Charles Wilhelm served as project coordinator at the Capital Budget Homeless Housing Program in New York in the 1980s.
