The Culture of Homelessness

The Culture of Homelessness
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 299
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ISBN-10 : 9781317036616
ISBN-13 : 1317036611
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis The Culture of Homelessness by : Megan Ravenhill

Despite an extensive literature on homelessness there is surprisingly little work that investigates the roots of homelessness by tracking homeless people over time. In this fascinating and much-needed ethnographic study, Megan Ravenhill presents the results of ten years' research on the streets and in the hostels and day-centres of the UK, incorporating intensive interviews with 150 homeless and formerly homeless people as well as policy makers and professionals working with homeless people. Ravenhill discusses the biographical, structural and behavioural factors that lead to homelessness. Amongst the important and unique features of the study are: the use of life-route maps showing the circumstances and decisions that lead to homelessness, a systematic study of the timescales involved, and a survey of people's exit routes from homelessness. Ravenhill also identifies factors that predict those most vulnerable to homelessness and factors that prevent or considerably delay the onset of homelessness.

Beyond Homelessness

Beyond Homelessness
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Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages : 378
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ISBN-10 : 9780802846921
ISBN-13 : 0802846920
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Beyond Homelessness by : Steven Bouma-Prediger

This book is a brilliant use of metaphor that makes clear why the world leaves us feeling so uneasy!

Homeless Culture and the Media

Homeless Culture and the Media
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Publisher : Cambria Press
Total Pages : 204
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ISBN-10 : 9781621969099
ISBN-13 : 1621969096
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

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Braving the Street

Braving the Street
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 144
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ISBN-10 : 9781782381570
ISBN-13 : 1782381570
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Braving the Street by : Irene Glasser

As homelessness continues to plague North America and also becomes more widespread in Europe, anthropologists turn their attention to solving the puzzle of why people in some of the most advanced technological societies in the world are found huddled in a subway tunnel, squatting in a vacant building, living in a shelter, or camping out in an abandoned field or on a beach. Anthropologists have a long tradition of working in poverty subcultures and have been able to contribute answers to some of the puzzles of homelessness through their ability to enter the culture of the homeless without some of the preconceptions of other disciplines. The authors, anthropologists from the U.S.A. and Canada, offer us an analysis of homelessness that is grounded in anthropological research in North America and throughout the world. Both have in-depth experience through working in communities of the homeless and present us withthe results of their own work and with that of their colleagues.

At Home on the Street

At Home on the Street
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39076002856339
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis At Home on the Street by : Jason Adam Wasserman

It is big and bright with lots of page-turning learning about the Word of God. The "Read and Share Bible" is unique in its format and solid in Bible teaching. Packed with 200 stories that are simple re-tellings, the gigantic message of God's love and care is sure to win the hearts of little ones and give them a strong Bible foundation to guide their lives. With over 400 pieces of art, this Bible Storybook is highly interactive as it encourages Scripture Memory and reinforces comprehension with quick activities foryou and your children. Stories include Noah, David, Joseph, Abraham, Paul, and Christ as well as many other timeless Biblical characters and lessons.

Homeless

Homeless
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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9780812208269
ISBN-13 : 0812208269
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Homeless by : Ella Howard

The homeless have the legal right to exist in modern American cities, yet antihomeless ordinances deny them access to many public spaces. How did previous generations of urban dwellers deal with the tensions between the rights of the homeless and those of other city residents? Ella Howard answers this question by tracing the history of skid rows from their rise in the late nineteenth century to their eradication in the mid-twentieth century. Focusing on New York's infamous Bowery, Homeless analyzes the efforts of politicians, charity administrators, social workers, urban planners, and social scientists as they grappled with the problem of homelessness. The development of the Bowery from a respectable entertainment district to the nation's most infamous skid row offers a lens through which to understand national trends of homelessness and the complex relationship between poverty and place. Maintained by cities across the country as a type of informal urban welfare, skid rows anchored the homeless to a specific neighborhood, offering inhabitants places to eat, drink, sleep, and find work while keeping them comfortably removed from the urban middle classes. This separation of the homeless from the core of city life fostered simplistic and often inaccurate understandings of their plight. Most efforts to assist them centered on reforming their behavior rather than addressing structural economic concerns. By midcentury, as city centers became more valuable, urban renewal projects and waves of gentrification destroyed skid rows and with them the public housing and social services they offered. With nowhere to go, the poor scattered across the urban landscape into public spaces, only to confront laws that effectively criminalized behavior associated with abject poverty. Richly detailed, Homeless lends insight into the meaning of homelessness and poverty in twentieth-century America and offers us a new perspective on the modern welfare system.

The Book on Ending Homelessness

The Book on Ending Homelessness
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Publisher : FriesenPress
Total Pages : 104
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ISBN-10 : 9781525554162
ISBN-13 : 1525554166
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis The Book on Ending Homelessness by : Iain De Jong

The Book on Ending Homelessness provides insights for those in the industry, elected officials, policy makers, funders, public servants and the general public on the best ways to move from managing homelessness to ending homelessness. While ending homelessness may seem to be a whacky or even preposterous idea, Iain De Jong takes more than two decades of experience as an award winning industry leader to lay out how and why homelessness can be ended in very practical ways. This book will provoke and teach, serving as both inspiration and an instruction manual for those serious about combatting one of the most important social issues of our time. The book will reshape how you think about homelessness, as well as how strategies like sheltering, street outreach and day services all play a role in ending homelessness when operated with a housing-focused lens and the right service orientation. No doubt the book will reassure some that their thinking and actions regarding homelessness are bang on, while challenging others to think and respond differently in what they do and how they invest their money. Many of the ideas in the book elaborate upon ideas that Iain shares in his blog, keynote speeches and conference presentations, as well as the training series that Iain and his team have been offering for the past decade. If you are involved in homelessness issues or concerned about homelessness, this book is essential reading.

Citizen Hobo

Citizen Hobo
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 353
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ISBN-10 : 9780226143804
ISBN-13 : 0226143805
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis Citizen Hobo by : Todd DePastino

In the years following the Civil War, a veritable army of homeless men swept across America's "wageworkers' frontier" and forged a beguiling and bedeviling counterculture known as "hobohemia." Celebrating unfettered masculinity and jealously guarding the American road as the preserve of white manhood, hoboes took command of downtown districts and swaggered onto center stage of the new urban culture. Less obviously, perhaps, they also staked their own claims on the American polity, claims that would in fact transform the very entitlements of American citizenship. In this eye-opening work of American history, Todd DePastino tells the epic story of hobohemia's rise and fall, and crafts a stunning new interpretation of the "American century" in the process. Drawing on sources ranging from diaries, letters, and police reports to movies and memoirs, Citizen Hobo breathes life into the largely forgotten world of the road, but it also, crucially, shows how the hobo army so haunted the American body politic that it prompted the creation of an entirely new social order and political economy. DePastino shows how hoboes—with their reputation as dangers to civilization, sexual savages, and professional idlers—became a cultural and political force, influencing the creation of welfare state measures, the promotion of mass consumption, and the suburbanization of America. Citizen Hobo's sweeping retelling of American nationhood in light of enduring struggles over "home" does more than chart the change from "homelessness" to "houselessness." In its breadth and scope, the book offers nothing less than an essential new context for thinking about Americans' struggles against inequality and alienation.

Permanent Supportive Housing

Permanent Supportive Housing
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Publisher : National Academies Press
Total Pages : 227
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ISBN-10 : 9780309477048
ISBN-13 : 0309477042
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis Permanent Supportive Housing by : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Chronic homelessness is a highly complex social problem of national importance. The problem has elicited a variety of societal and public policy responses over the years, concomitant with fluctuations in the economy and changes in the demographics of and attitudes toward poor and disenfranchised citizens. In recent decades, federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, and the philanthropic community have worked hard to develop and implement programs to solve the challenges of homelessness, and progress has been made. However, much more remains to be done. Importantly, the results of various efforts, and especially the efforts to reduce homelessness among veterans in recent years, have shown that the problem of homelessness can be successfully addressed. Although a number of programs have been developed to meet the needs of persons experiencing homelessness, this report focuses on one particular type of intervention: permanent supportive housing (PSH). Permanent Supportive Housing focuses on the impact of PSH on health care outcomes and its cost-effectiveness. The report also addresses policy and program barriers that affect the ability to bring the PSH and other housing models to scale to address housing and health care needs.

Inequality, Poverty, and Neoliberal Governance

Inequality, Poverty, and Neoliberal Governance
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 193
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ISBN-10 : 9781442600867
ISBN-13 : 1442600861
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Inequality, Poverty, and Neoliberal Governance by : Vincent Lyon-Callo

"This is a terrific book. Lyon-Callo's descriptions shatter stereotypes about homeless people and focus instead on the dysfunction of the system that allegedly serves them." - Susan Greenbaum, University of South Florida