1st Edition

Address Unknown The Homeless in America

Edited By James Wright Copyright 2009
220 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

Homelessness in America has grown from a minor problem in isolated areas of a few big cities into a near epidemic. Today, scarcely any American city of any appreciable size lacks homeless people. Homeless shelters and programs have become as essential and as commonplace as police protection or water and sewage treatment. What to do for, with, or about the homeless is a nagging and complex social... Read more
One: The Human Faces of Homelessness; Two: Homeless in America: The New American Nightmare; Three: The Root Causes: Housing and Poverty; Four: Who Are the Homeless? 1; Five: How People Become Homeless; Six: Drunk, Stoned, Crazy, and Sick; Seven: To Promote the Social Welfare; Eight: Who Can Be Helped, and How?

Biography

James Wright