Representing the poor and homeless
Subtitle: innovations in advocacy
By: Sidney D. Watson, editor.
Contributors: Watson, Sidney D., 1952-; American Bar Association. Commission on Homelessness and Poverty.
Publisher: American Bar Association, Commission on Homelessness & Poverty
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: Legal assistance to the poor -- United States.; Homeless persons -- Services for -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-225).
Table of contents: title: Advocacy and attribution: shaping and reponding to perceptions of the causes of homelessness / Gary Blasi; title: The lawyer as abolitionist: ending homelessness and poverty in our time / Florence Wagman Roisman; title: A community based approach / Robert A. Solomon; title: Housing out the poor / John J. Ammann; title: "The possibility of a beloved place": residents and placemaking in public housing communities / Susan Bennett; title: Affordable housing: can NIMBYISM be transformed into OKIMBYISM? / Peter W. Salsich, Jr.; title: Homelessness and human rights: toward an integrated strategy / Maria Foscarinis; title: Discharges to the streets: hospitals and homelessness / Sidney D. Watson; title: The new localism in welfare advocacy / Matthew Diller; title: Tackling homelessness through microenterprise / Susan R. Jones; title: On abolitionist critiques, "Homeless Services" programs, and pragmatic change / Lucie White.