num_pages: 255
description: The most accurate and comprehensive picture of homelessness to date, this study offers a powerful explanation of its causes, proposes short- and long-term solutions, and documents the striking contrasts between the homeless of the 1950s and 1960s and the contemporary homeless population, which is younger and contains more women, children, and blacks.
language: English
title: Down and Out in America: The Origins of Homelessness
titlecomplete: Down and Out in America: The Origins of Homelessness
genres: Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 16
publisher: University of Chicago Press