Title: Paths to homelessness : extreme poverty and the urban housing crisis /
Authors: Timmer, Doug A.; Eitzen, D. Stanley.; Talley, Kathryn D.
Publisher: Westview Press,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Homelessness United States Case studies.; Poverty United States Case studies.; Urban poor Housing United States Case studies.; Unemployed United States Case studies.
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.