"Being homeless in one's homeland is a colonial legacy for many Indigenous people in settler societies. The construction of Commonwealth nation-states from colonial settler societies depended on the dispossession of Indigenous peoples from their lands. The legacy of that disposs…
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"Being homeless in one's homeland is a colonial legacy for many Indigenous people in settler societies. The construction of Commonwealth nation-states from colonial settler societies depended on the dispossession of Indigenous peoples from their lands. The legacy of that disposs…
"Homelessness in America has grown from a minor problem in isolated areas of a few big cities into a near epidemic. Today, scarcely an American city of any appreciable size lacks homeless people. Homeless shelters and programs have become as essential and as commonplace as polic…
"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…
"Homelessness in America has grown from a minor problem in isolated areas of a few big cities into a near epidemic. Today, scarcely an American city of any appreciable size lacks homeless people. Homeless shelters and programs have become as essential and as commonplace as polic…
“The catacombs of ancient Rome served as houses of worship for Christians. When surveyed in the early 1800s, the sewers of Paris yielded gold, jewels, and relics of the revolution. And thousands of people lived in the subway and train tunnels of New York City in the 1980s and ‘9…
"The catacombs of ancient Rome served as houses of worship for Christians. When surveyed in the early 1800s, the sewers of Paris yielded gold, jewels and relics of the revolution. And thousands of people lived in the subway and train tunnels of New York City in the 1980s and '90…
Shelter Blues is an innovative portrait of people residing in Boston's Station Street Shelter. It examines the everyday lives of more than 40 homeless men and women of various ethnicities, ranging in age from early 20s to mid-60s. Based on a sixteen-month study, it draws readers…
