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Privacy, mobility, dignity, living in a vehicle offers many advantages over life in a shelter or on the street. Here the author broadens our understanding of homelessness by exploring the growing phenomenon of vehicle living and how it differs from other forms of makeshift housing. Incorporating both quantitative data and ethnographic work in California, she takes us into the lives of those who call a car, truck, or RV home. She probes the forces...
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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...
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"Homelessness is a perennial topic of concern at libraries. In fact, staff at public libraries interact with almost as many homeless individuals as staff at shelters do. In this book Dowd, executive director of a homeless shelter, spotlights best practices drawn from his own shelter's policies and training materials"--
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