American Homelessness: A Reference Handbook

By Mary Ellen Hombs

Book Overview

With 50 percent new material, this third edition breaks this complex topic into key elements, examining the roots of the problem, programs that address it, current research, and public perceptions of homelessness.

American Homelessness covers who the homeless are and why they are in such a situation; important events that have contributed to the problem; and a who's who of homelessness activism including people such as MacArthur Fellow Robert M. Hayes, the former securities lawyer who filed the landmark New York City right-to-shelter case in l979. It also includes a chronology; facts and statistics; key documents and reports; a discussion of the International Bill of Rights; a directory of organizations, associations, and government agencies; and an annotated bibliography.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1576072479
• ISBN13: 9781576072479
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: ABC-CLIO
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

An informative survey of homelessness in the United States

An important part of the ABC-CLIO "Contemporary World Issues" series, American Homelessness: A Reference Handbook offers an informative survey of homelessness in the United States since 1980, as well as federal, state, and municipal efforts to solve this persistent and growing problem. Now in an updated and expanded third edition (fifty percent of the material is new), all of the pertinent laws regulating homeless people in public places are covered, as well as the results of federal funding, along with housing, health issues, and state policies affecting the homeless. An essential, core reference for academic, governmental, advocacy organization, and community library reference collections, American Homelessness also offers a series of insights into homelessness in Western Europe, Canada, and Australia.