Words -- Numbers -- Hoboes, tramps, and bums, 1790-1930 -- Ben Reitman defines hobo, tramp, and bum -- Jack London explains "the rods" -- Train jumping -- A migrant farm worker -- The extent of the problem, 1890-1925 -- Country lodgings -- The stem, or main stem -- The hobo jungle -- "Tramp-speak" and the hobo subculture -- Hobo songs -- Hobo politics -- The hobo college -- Hobohemia disappears -- Migrants and transients, 1930-1960 -- On the farm -- In the city -- Bonus army -- FERA and FTP -- Bum brigade -- Squatters -- Weedpatch camp -- Hooverville -- Picking grapes in Lodi -- Arts and culture -- Liquidating the Federal Transient Program -- Street people, bag ladies, and homeless people -- Charles Dickens coins the word -- Congress defines homeless -- Mitch Snyder claims "millions" -- HUD disagrees sharply -- Making sense of the conflict -- The number of homeless -- Who are the homeless? -- An overview of the homeless population today -- Special populations of homeless people -- Homeless children and their families -- Homeless veterans -- Homeless people in rural areas -- Homeless people of color -- Homeless Latinos and a different perspective -- Staying alive: homeless people cope -- Housing for the homeless -- Criminalizing the homeless -- Washington takes the lead.
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