Confronting homelessness
Subtitle: poverty, politics, and the failure of social policy
By: David Wagner with Jennifer Barton Gilman
Contributors: Gilman, Jennifer Barton
Series: Social problems, social constructions
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers; Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781588268235
Subjects: Social policy; Homelessness
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Homelessness: from crisis to routine; title: The rise and fall of a social problem; title: A brief history of homelessness; title: Recognizing and naming a crisis, 1979-1982; title: Modest victories, 1983-1988; title: Criminalization and compassion fatigue, 1989-1993; title: From social problem to bureaucratic problem, 1994-2012; title: Lessons learned.