Can American cities respond effectively to pressing social problems? Or, as many scholars have claimed, are urban politics so mired in stasis, gridlock and bureaucratic paralysis that dramatic policy change is impossible? Homelessness in New York City tells the remarkable story of how America's largest city has struggled for more than thirty years ......
History and Tragedy of an Intractable Social Problem
This book examines the history, governmental and private responses, and future prospects of this intractable challenge. Stephen Eides explains why homelessness persists in America and offers concrete recommendations for how we can do better for the homeless population.
This book argues that the best sources for how to address the issues of homelessness are people experiencing homelessness themselves. The author examines how stigmatization, metaphorical language, and spatial segregation relating to homelessness serve as tools for systemic oppression.
Homeless Voices: Stigma, Space, and Social Media argues that the best sources for how to address issues of homelessness are people experiencing homelessness themselves, particularly as they express their experiences through personal blogs and memoirs. Mary L. Schuster discusses how space and land have been historically denied to marginalized ......
A Practical Guide for the Interdisciplinary Care Team
Filled with key insights and field-tested knowledge, this is a concise, hands-on guide to how interdisciplinary team strategies can advance the care of older homeless adults. The book encompasses research evidence, education-based initiatives, and systems thinking, and describes how to implement promising health care outlooks for diverse elderly ......
A timely and thoughtful story that depicts the life of two children thrust into homelessness, as they move out of their house to a motel, to a shelter, and finally another more permanent home. Throughout the duo is challenged by uncomfortable new places and inquiries from strangers, but ultimately never lose their optimism or determination.
Disrupting Homelessness unmasks the futile assumptions of our present approaches to homelessness and suggests ways in which Christians and Christian communities can create a prophetic social movement to end poverty and homelessness. The American dream, as conveyed by the media, includes owning a home. Increasingly, people are homeless or ......
The book offers discussions that provide approaches to therapy and rehabilitation from the vantage point of treatment environments, from street to housing. Its real-world orientation offers a detailed, practical team approach to situations posed by families, homeless children, veterans, urban and rural populations, and others.
Prisons, Drug Markets, and the New Pharmaceutical Self
Carceral Recovery is a medical anthropologist's account of demoralizing disciplinary and punitive approaches that continue to shape people's experience of recovery in an American city and makes a case for dis-entangling punitive approaches from the experience of substance use.
