Address Unknown: The Homeless in America

ISBN-13: 9780202303642 / Angielski / Twarda / 1989 / 170 str.

James D. Wright

Opis

Describes the nature of homelessness, its multiple causes, and its demographic, economic, sociological, and social policy antecedents. Finding the origins of the problem to be social and political rather than economic, Wright (human relations, Tulane) outlines remedies based on existing and modified

Spis treści

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?

O autorze

James Wright