San Antonio College Library

Late in the 1970s, Americans began to notice more people sleeping in public places and wandering the streets. By the late 1980s, the homeless were everywhere--a grim reminder of America's social and economic troubles. Renowned social analyst Jencks discusses the causes and extent of this problem and what can be done about it. Line illustrations and tables.

Homelessness has now been on the American policy agenda for close to two decades. In 1989, when the Urban Institute published "America's Homeless", by Martha Burt and Barbara Cohen, policymakers and the public may have hoped that we could end the crisis relatively quickly. The arrival of the new millennium has not fulfilled that expectation. In this new volume, "Helping America's Homeless", Martha Burt and coauthors return to the problem with the...