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International perspectives on homelessness

Author: Valerie Polakow; Cindy Guillean
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2001.
Series: Contributions in sociology, no. 135
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Valerie Polakow; Cindy Guillean
ISBN: 0313308551 9780313308550
OCLC Number: 45102975
Description: ix, 316 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: The changing face of homelessness in Europe / Dragana Avramov -- Homelessness in Sweden : an avoidable problem / Ingrid Sahlin -- Understanding homelessness and social policy in Denmark / Tobias Børner Stax -- Homelessness in Germany : housing poverty in a wealthy country / Volker Busch-Geertsema -- Homelessness in a Mediterranean country : the case of Greece / Aristides Sapounakis -- Housing and homelessness in England / Katherine Duffy -- "Share the spirit" : homelessness in Australia / Anna Rubbo -- Poverty amidst plenty : homelessness in the United States / Barbara Duffield -- Bringing it all back home : homelessness and alternative housing policies among urban squatters in Buenos Aires, Argentina / Valeria Procupez and Maria Carla Rodriguez -- Democracy and homelessness in Brazil / Ronald E. Ahnen -- Mapping the terrains of homelessness in postcolonial Kenya / Beth Blue Swadener and Kagendo N. Mutua -- Houses for all? Post-apartheid housing policy and shelter needs in South Africa / Andrew Spiegel, Vanessa Watson, and Peter Wilkinson.
Series Title: Contributions in sociology, no. 135
Responsibility: edited by Valerie Polakow and Cindy Guillean.

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