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Homelessness handbook /
Designed to support the efforts of everyone who wants to end homelessness. Explains who the homeless are, why they are homeless, what it means to be homeless, and what the rest of us can do to alleviate the suffering of the homeless.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Great Barrington, Mass. :
Berkshire Pub. Group,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The faces of homelessness
- Homelessness in the past
- Vagrancy
- Workhouses
- Poorhouses
- Hobo and tramp literature
- Great Depression
- Skid Row era
- Our homeless neighbors
- The homeless, who are they and how many?
- Patterns of homelessness
- Homelessness in rural America
- Homelessness in suburbia
- The homelessness we don't see
- Homeless women
- Homeless families
- Homeless youth
- Homeless African-Americans
- Homeless Latino(a)s
- Homeless older persons
- Homeless veterans
- Lifestyles and life issues
- Course of homelessness
- Living on the margins
- Survival strategies
- Moving around and about
- Panhandling
- Work on the streets
- Prostitution
- Street newspapers
- Impact of homelessness on children
- Parenting issues
- Trauma and victimization
- Health problems
- Hunger and nutrition
- Alcohol and drugs
- How others see the homeless
- Media portrayals of the homeless
- Homelessness in documentary film
- Homelessness in narrative film
- Photographing the homeless
- Explaining homelessness
- Causes of homelessness
- Deindustrialization
- Deinstitutionalization
- Gentrification
- The affordable housing crisis
- Stressful life events
- Preventing and alleviating homelessness
- Prevention approaches
- Housing issues and solutions
- Homeless organizing
- Issues for libraries in serving the homeless
- Criminal activity and policing
- Homelessness in U.S. cities
- Dallas
- Los Angeles
- Minneapolis and St. Paul
- New York City
- Philadelphia
- St. Louis
- Washington, D.C.
- Homelessness around the world
- International perspectives on homelessness
- Housing and homelessness in developing nations
- Bangladesh
- Calcutta
- Canada
- France
- Japan
- Mumbai
- Russia
- United Kingdom
- Zimbabwe
- Glossary
- Organizations.