Introduction

Valerie Polakow

Cindy Guillean

Europe

The Changing Face of Homelessness in Europe

Dragana Avramov

Homelessness in Sweden: An Avoidable Problem

Ingrid Sahlin

Understanding Homelessness and Social Policy in Denmark

Tobias Brner Stax

Homelessness in Germany: Housing Poverty in a Wealthy Country

Volker Busch-Geertsema

Homelessness in a Mediterranean Country: The Case of Greece

Aristides Sapounakis

Housing and Homelessness in England

Katherine Duffy

Australia

``Share the Spirit'': Homelessness in Australia

Anna Rubbo

The Americas

Poverty Amidst Plenty: Homelessness in the United States

Barbara Duffield

Bringing It All Back Home: Homelessness and Alternative Housing Policies among Urban Squatters in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Valeria Procupez

Maria Carla Rodriguez

Democracy and Homelessness in Brazil

Ronald E. Ahnen

Africa

Mapping the Terrains of Homelessness in Postcolonial Kenya

Beth Blue Swadener

Kagendo N. Mutua

Houses for All? Post-Apartheid Housing Policy and Shelter Needs in South Africa

Andrew Spiegel

Vanessa Watson

Peter Wilkinson

Index

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