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American Homelessness : A Reference Handbook Contemporary World Issues
author
:
Hombs, Mary Ellen.
publisher
:
ABC-CLIO
isbn10 | asin
:
0874367255
print isbn13
:
9780874367256
ebook isbn13
:
9780585000411
language
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English
subject
Homelessness--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
publication date
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1994
lcc
:
HV4505.H647 1994eb
ddc
:
362.5/0973
subject
:
Homelessness--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Page iii
American Homelessness
A Reference Handbook
Second Edition
Mary Ellen Hombs Director Legal Services Homelessness Task Force
CONTEMPORARY WORLD ISSUES Santa Barbara, California Denver, Colorado Oxford, England
Page iv
Copyright 1994 by ABC-CLIO, Inc.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review, without prior permission in writing from the publishers.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hombs, Mary Ellen.
American homelessness: a reference handbook / Mary Ellen Hombs.2nd ed.
p. cm.(Contemporary world issues)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. HomelessnessUnited StatesHandbooks, manuals, etc.
I. Title. II. Series.
HV4505.H647 1994
362.5'0973dc20
94-33788
ISBN 0-87436-725-5 (alk. paper)
00 99 98 97 96 95
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2
ABC-CLIO, Inc.
130 Cremona Drive, P.O. Box 1911
Santa Barbara, California 93116-1911
This book is printed on acid-free paper .
Manufactured in the United States of America.
Page v
To Simone Weil, who said that the only real question to be asked of another is "What are you going through?", and to Elliot Liebow, who has listened so well to what homeless people have answered.
Page vii
Contents
Preface
xi
1 Introduction
1
What Is Homelessness?
4
Who Is Homeless?
6
How Many People Are Homeless?
7
What Causes Homelessness?
8
The Response to Homelessness
11
2 Chronology
15
3 Biographical Sketches
27
4 Facts and Statistics
33
Facts about Homelessness
33
Facts about Poverty
38
Facts about Cash Assistance Programs
39
Facts about Housing
49
5 Documents and Reports
53
Firsthand Perspectives on Homelessness
54
Sources of Food for Homeless People
62
Services in Alcohol Recovery Programs
64
Homelessness and Mental Illness
70
Education of Homeless Children
73
Homeless People and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
75
Homelessness and Veterans
85
Page viii
Homeless Youth
86
A Federal Policy on Homelessness
86
6 Federal Legislation on Homelessness
93
PreMcKinney Act Legislation
93
Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act (PL 100-77)
96
New Administration Brings New Policy Directions
119
Administration Proposes McKinney Reorganization
122
7 A Summary of Significant Litigation on Homelessness
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