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Author:

Timmer, Doug A.

Title:

Paths to homelessness : extreme poverty and the urban housing crisis / Doug A. Timmer, D. Stanley Eitzen, and Kathryn D. Talley.

Publisher:

Westview Press,

Copyright Date:

1994

Description:

xi, 210 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Homelessness--United States--Case studies.
Poverty--United States--Case studies.
Urban poor--Case studies.--United States--Case studies.
Unemployed--United States--Case studies.
Homelessness
United States

Other Authors:

Eitzen, D. Stanley.
Talley, Kathryn D.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-199) and index.

Contents:

Understanding homelessness: industrial and urban decline -- The root causes of homelessness in American cities -- The "old" homeless: Sam Sheldon and Henry Walsh -- Work versus welfare, a false choice: Sue Jackson -- The economic marginality of young families: Sara, Dave, Elizabeth, and Joshua -- Left behind in a de-industrialized, low-wage economy: Bob and Nancy Shagford and their children -- Eviction: Debbie Jones and her children -- "Social service bureaucracy and homelessness: Diane Moore -- Runaway and throwaway teens: Jeffrey Giancarlo -- A black teenage single mother and her son: Michelle and Andre -- Battered women and homelessness: Barbara Evans -- The complex and simple reality of homelessness -- Making homelessness go away: politics and policy.

ISBN:

9780813307831 (pbk)
081330783X (pbk)
9780813307824 (alk. paper)
0813307821 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

94015668

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

N2AX314 -- Divine Word College - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)