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By Dominic E. Snider (editor)

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9781619426610 | Nova Science Pub Inc, June 30, 2012, cover price $185.00 | About this edition: Book by

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9781615992027 | Loving Healing Pr, September 30, 2012, cover price $31.95
9781615992010 | Loving Healing Pr, September 30, 2012, cover price $18.95

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Product Description: Homelessness has become a lasting issue of vital social concern. As the number of the homeless has grown, the complexity of the issue has become increasingly clear to researchers and private and public service providers. The plight of the homeless raises many ethical, anthropological, political, sociological, and public health questions...read more
By Jon Karl Erickson (editor) and Charles Wilhelm (editor)

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9781412847681 | Reprint edition (Rutgers Univ Center for Urban, July 1, 2012), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Homelessness has become a lasting issue of vital social concern.

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Product Description: Cities throughout the United States are experiencing a dramatic rise in the number of homeless persons. Who are the homeless? How many homeless persons are there in America? What policies and programs for the homeless have and should be implemented at the federal, state and local levels? This collection of articles, reports and case studies brings together a vari­ety of perspectives to help answer these questions...read more

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9780882851129 | Rutgers Univ Center for Urban, June 1, 1986, cover price $45.95 | About this edition: Cities throughout the United States are experiencing a dramatic rise in the number of homeless persons.

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Product Description: Research proves that the Housing First approach is more effective than traditional models at dramatically reducing homelessness among those with mental health and substance use disorders. This step-by-step manual provides a solid foundation for introducing the evidence-based Housing First approach--provide housing first, followed by supportive treatment services--into new locations, and evolving existing programs into those based on the ideals of the Pathways Model to End Homelessness...read more

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9781592859986 | Hazelden, November 1, 2010, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Research proves that the Housing First approach is more effective than traditional models at dramatically reducing homelessness among those with mental health and substance use disorders.

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First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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9780789016331 | Routledge, May 18, 2006, cover price $195.00

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9780789016348 | Routledge, April 28, 2006, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: First published in 2006.

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Product Description: Winner of the 1999 Victor Turner Prize of the Society for Humanistic Anthropology (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780812234077 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Winner of the 1999 Victor Turner Prize of the Society for Humanistic Anthropology

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9780812216226 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Desjarlais shows us not anonymous faces of the homeless but real people.

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Product Description: The New Poverty: Homeless Families in America explores the complex issues surrounding the epidemic of homelessness and presents plausible solutions to reverse the spread of this scourge. The book clearly defines the extent of the issue - its scale, severity, and scope - and offers a viable alternative to stem homelessness, poverty, and welfare dependence in America...read more

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9780306452734 | Insight Books, May 1, 1996, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: The New Poverty: Homeless Families in America explores the complex issues surrounding the epidemic of homelessness and presents plausible solutions to reverse the spread of this scourge.

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9780306452741 | Plenum Pr, May 1, 1996, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The New Poverty: Homeless Families in America explores the complex issues surrounding the epidemic of homelessness and presents plausible solutions to reverse the spread of this scourge.

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Describes the problems faced by the homeless, and tells how to help by giving money, food, and clothing, volunteering to work at shelters, starting assistance programs, and working for government policies

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9780883638880 | Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, April 1, 1993, cover price $1.95 | About this edition: Describes the problems faced by the homeless, and tells how to help by giving money, food, and clothing, volunteering to work at shelters, starting assistance programs, and working for government policies

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Product Description: According to current projections, the number of homeless in the United States will continue to swell in the 1990s unless more aggressive efforts to combat the problem are initiated. Based upon a thorough analysis of the underlying social and political causes of homelessness in this country, this study takes a hard look at the realities and misconceptions that surround the victims...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780275933203 | Praeger Pub Text, May 1, 1991, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: According to current projections, the number of homeless in the United States will continue to swell in the 1990s unless more aggressive efforts to combat the problem are initiated.

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9780275944018 | Reprint edition (Praeger Pub Text, June 30, 1992), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: According to current projections, the number of homeless in the United States will continue to swell in the 1990s unless more aggressive efforts to combat the problem are initiated.

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Discusses how to respond to the needs of the homeless by reaching a deeper understanding of the problems they face and offering practical assistance through shelters, health clinics, church groups, and other organizations

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9780840795946 | Thomas Nelson Inc, September 1, 1991, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Discusses how to respond to the needs of the homeless by reaching a deeper understanding of the problems they face and offering practical assistance through shelters, health clinics, church groups, and other organizations

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Product Description: This is the second of Momeni's two-volume series on homelessness in the United States. While volume I concentrated on the statewide distribution, variations, trends, and characteristics of the homeless population, the present volume addresses the problem of data collection and specific causes and issues that relate to homelessness...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Jamshid A. Momeni (editor)

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9780313267925 | Praeger Pub Text, April 1, 1990, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: This is the second of Momeni's two-volume series on homelessness in the United States.

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9780275936327 | Praeger Pub Text, March 1, 1990, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: This is the second of Momeni's two-volume series on homelessness in the United States.

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Product Description: Book by Moran, Michael J.

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9780962341069 | Resurrection Pr, April 1, 1990, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Book by Moran, Michael J.

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Product Description: Chapters in this work describe and analyze homelessness in 15 states, from all geographic regions of the US. The diversity of survey locations reveals a variety of forces contributing to homelessness. There are frequent efforts to situate the problem within the sociopolitical context of the 1980s...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780313255663 | Praeger Pub Text, March 1, 1989, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: Chapters in this work describe and analyze homelessness in 15 states, from all geographic regions of the US.

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9780275936037 | Praeger Pub Text, April 1, 1990, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: Chapters in this work describe and analyze homelessness in 15 states, from all geographic regions of the US.

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Essays discuss the history of homelessness in America, describe the everyday lives of homeless people, and suggest changes in public policy

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9780195039184 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 22, 1990, cover price $56.00 | About this edition: Essays discuss the history of homelessness in America, describe the everyday lives of homeless people, and suggest changes in public policy

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Product Description: Drawing on a nationally representative sample of interviews with homeless people who use services and with service providers in several large cities, the authors explore the efforts of various states and localities to provide emergency services to homeless people, to help them get out of homelessness, and to prevent homelessness...read more

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9780877664710 | Urban Inst Pr, August 1, 1989, cover price $43.00 | About this edition: Drawing on a nationally representative sample of interviews with homeless people who use services and with service providers in several large cities, the authors explore the efforts of various states and localities to provide emergency services to homeless people, to help them get out of homelessness, and to prevent homelessness.

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9780877664727 | Urban Inst Pr, August 1, 1989, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Drawing on a nationally representative sample of interviews with homeless people who use services and with service providers in several large cities, the authors explore the efforts of various states and localities to provide emergency services to homeless people, to help them get out of homelessness, and to prevent homelessness.

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