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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Timmer, Doug A. Paths to homelessness. Boulder : Westview Press, 1994 (OCoLC)607650132 |
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| 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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