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There's no place like home : anthropological perspectives on housing and homelessness in the United States

Author: Anna Lou Dehavenon
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 1996.
Series: Contemporary urban studies
Edition/Format: Book : Conference publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Conference publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Anna Lou Dehavenon
ISBN: 0897894847 9780897894845
OCLC Number: 34283416
Description: xxi, 206 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents: Prologue: Azdak Lives / Kim Hopper -- Introduction / Anna Lou Dehavenon -- 1. Poverty and Homelessness in Rural Upstate New York / Janet M. Fitchen -- 2. The 1990 Decennial Census and Patterns of Homelessness in a Small New England City / Irene Glasser -- 3. Doubling-Up: A Strategy of Urban Reciprocity to Avoid Homelessness in Detroit / M. Rory Bolger -- 4. Doubling-Up and New York City's Policies for Sheltering Homeless Families / Anna Lou Dehavenon -- 5. A Home By Any Means Necessary: Government Policy on Squatting in the Public Housing of a Large Mid-Atlantic City / Andrew H. Maxwell -- 6. Huts for the Homeless: A Low-Technology Approach for Squatters in Atlanta, Georgia / Amy Phillips and Susan Hamilton -- 7. Piety and Poverty: The Religious Response to the Homeless in Albuquerque, New Mexico / Michael Robertson -- 8. Suburban Homelessness and Social Space: Strategies of Authority and Local Resistance in Orange County, California / Talmadge Wright and Anita Vermund.
Series Title: Contemporary urban studies
Responsibility: edited by Anna Lou Dehavenon.

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