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Paths to homelessness : extreme poverty and the urban housing crisis

Author: Doug A Timmer; D Stanley Eitzen; Kathryn D Talley
Publisher: Boulder : Westview Press, 1994.
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Timmer, Doug A.
Paths to homelessness.
Boulder : Westview Press, 1994
(OCoLC)607650132
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Doug A Timmer; D Stanley Eitzen; Kathryn D Talley
ISBN: 0813307821 9780813307824 081330783X 9780813307831
OCLC Number: 30400350
Description: xi, 210 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Understanding homelessness: industrial and urban decline --
The root causes of homelessness in American cities --
The "old" homeless: Sam Sheldon and Henry Walsh --
Work versus welfare, a false choice: Sue Jackson --
The economic marginality of young families: Sara, Dave, Elizabeth, and Joshua --
Left behind in a de-industrialized, low-wage economy: Bob and Nancy Shagford and their children --
Eviction: Debbie Jones and her children --
"Social service bureaucracy and homelessness: Diane Moore --
Runaway and throwaway teens: Jeffrey Giancarlo --
A black teenage single mother and her son: Michelle and Andre --
Battered women and homelessness: Barbara Evans --
The complex and simple reality of homelessness --
Making homelessness go away: politics and policy.
Responsibility: Doug A. Timmer, D. Stanley Eitzen, and Kathryn D. Talley.
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