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Nobody Wants to Hear Our Truth: Homeless Women and Theories of the Welfare State
Authors: Ralston, Meredith L.
Publication Date: 1996
The author conducted interviews for over five years with 20 homeless and addicted women with different experiences of sexual abuse and sexism and racism. They vividly demonstrate how both neo-conservative and neo-liberal prescriptions for solving their problems are unworkable. The work considers the linkage of homelessness and addiction, provides profiles of the interviewee, and outlines methodology used in the research.
Tags: women; theory; Demography & Characteristics of Homelessness; single women
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Planning a Community Support System for the Homeless: From Theory to Principle; From Principle to Action
Authors: Love, Andrew S.; Canada
Publication Date: 1992
This thesis approaches the problem of planning for human services within the context of the restructuring of welfare and social policy during the 1980s. In Section 1, it argues that the profession of urban planning needs to reexamine how moral principles and normative ethical theories shape and influence public policy decisions. (excerpt from the publisher)
Tags: Homeless; theory; homeless persons; services for; homelessness; city planning; moral and ethical aspects.; Definitions, Estimates and report cards; program planning and evaluation
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Emergency Shelters in Vancouver, Canada
Authors: Acorn, Sonia; Canada
Journal Name: Journal of Community Health
Publication Date: 1993
The shelter experiences, employment history, income and social service needs utilization were examined among...
Tags: theory; Shelters; shelters and hostels
5 Recommendations
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Marginalization and the Homeless: A Prescriptive Analysis
Authors: Melnitzer, Shane B.
Journal Name: Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless
Publication Date: 2007
The author discusses marginality in relation to homelessness, emphasizing marginality's appearance as a psychosocial phenomenon which contributes to homelessness while facilitating the environmental forces responsible for it. After examining the marginality of homeless populations and reviewing relevant theory, the author explains how dichotomies arising from false distinctions between homeless and housed populations restrict a society's options in confronting homelessness by obscuring...
Tags: marginality; social psychology; theory; homeless policy
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Increased Homelessness and Low Rent Housing Vacancy Rates
Authors: Park, J. Y. S. H.
Journal Name: Journal of Housing Economics
Publication Date: 2000
This article highlights the relationship between rates of homelessness and the housing market. Evidence suggests that housing market conditions influence higher rates of homelessness. The study uses 'time series' and 'cross-sectional' American housing survey data to demonstrate this relationship. The findings of this study are consistent with O'Flaherty's economic model of homelessness and contrary to Jenks's American Housing Survey.
Tags: homeless; shelters for; theory; housing; causes of homelessness
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Mismanagement in Programs for the Homeless: Washington, Dc, As a Case Study: Fifth Report
Authors: House Committee on Government Operations, United States Congress; Committee on Government Operations together with separate views
Organization: Worldcat
Publication Date: 1991
Report describes fraud, abuse, and ineptitude and suggests remedies.
Book can be found in the following libraries:
http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/top3mset/25275469
Tags: shelters for; theory; Legal & Justice Issues; crime
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Toward Theoretical Integration
Authors: Myers, Martha A.; Canada
Journal Name: Theoretical Criminology
Publication Date: 2000
Part of a review symposium on a book by John Hagan & Bill McCarthy, Mean Streets: Youth Crime and Homelessness, (Cambridge: Cambridge U Press, 1997). This work draws on a wealth of criminological theory, assessing its relevance to findings from 10 years of research among homeless youth in Toronto, Ontario, & Vancouver, British Columbia. The book's attention to issues of class & its role in delinquency is applauded, though the coverage afforded other theories is found somewhat scant....
Tags: Homeless; theory; crime; steet youth; youth
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Homeless Statistics
Authors: Community, Rebeccas; Canada
Publication Date: 2007
website listing homeless statistics for Australia, Canada, United Kingdom & United States
Tags: Homeless; theory; usa; Definitions, Estimates and report cards
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Targeting Housing Aid to the Homeless: Evidence From the National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients
Authors: Early, Dirk W.
Publication Date: 2001
This study combines data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation with the National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients to estimate how well units of subsidized housing are targeted toward households at risk of being homeless. Additional funding for subsidized housing is a commonly proposed solution
Tags: theory; shelters for; Rent Supplements and Shelter Allowances; supportive housing
4 Recommendations
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Homelessness, Causes and Effects: Vol 3. the Relationship Between Homelessness and the Health, Social Services and Criminal Justice Systems : Review of the Literature
Authors: Eberle, Margaret Patricia; British Columbia; Ministry of Social Development and Economic Security; Canada
Publication Date: 2001
V. 1. The relationship between homelessness and the health, social services and criminal justice systems: a review of the literature -- v. 2. A profile, policy review and analysis of homelessness in British Columbia -- v. 3. The costs of homelessness in British Columbia -- v. 4. A profile and policy review of homelessness in the provinces of Ontario, Quebec and Alberta: background report.
Tags: theory; v. ; health and hygiene; access to supports and services; Health and Community Services
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Homelessness: the Making and Unmaking of a Crisis
Authors: Layton, Jack
Publication Date: 2000
The author approaches the crisis of homelessness in Canada from its very roots, in order not only to understand the problem, but to find practical solutions.
Tags: theory; causes of homelessness; Definitions, Estimates and report cards; Demography & Characteristics of Homelessness
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Roundtables on Best Practices Addressing Homelessness: Background Reports and Summaries
Authors: Corporation, Canada Mortgage and Housing; Canada
Publication Date: 1999
The following libraries own the book:
http://worldcat.org/oclc/43710436?tab=holdings
Tags: theory; Demography & Characteristics of Homelessness; shelters and hostels; supportive housing; transitional housing
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Down and Out in Canada: Homeless Canadians
Authors: O'Reilly-Fleming, Thomas; Canada
Publication Date: 1993
The following libraries own the book: http://worldcat.org/oclc/28021945?tab=holdings
Tags: theory; Definitions, Estimates and report cards; Demography & Characteristics of Homelessness
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Single Homeless Women: a Report on Their Quality of Life
Authors: Breton, Margot; Bunston, Terry; Canada
Publication Date: 1991
The following libraries own the book:
http://worldcat.org/oclc/33388628?tab=holdings
Tags: women; theory; population; Demography & Characteristics of Homelessness; single women
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Dead End: Homeless Teenagers, a Multi-Service Approach
Authors: Michaud, Margaret; Canada
Publication Date: 1988
The author advances a multi-service approach to the problems associated with street youth and explores methods for helping youth exit the streets.
Tags: theory; services; causes of homelessness; Demography & Characteristics of Homelessness; youth
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Disadvantage, Drift and Despair: a Study of Homelessness in Canada
Authors: Peressini, Tracy L.; Canada
Publication Date: 1995
The study yields a profile of characteristics of the homeless. Also, three models of homelessness are assessed (using logistic regression) based on theories prominent in the American research literature. These include: the socioeconomic theories of homelessness; theories of social dislocation; and theories of the physical and psychological factors associated with homelessness. Next, a composite model is developed and estimated, using measures outlined in each of the...
Tags: Homeless; theory; homelessness; homeless persons; Definitions, Estimates and report cards; Demography & Characteristics of Homelessness
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On Becoming Homeless: a Study of Chronically Mentally Ill Persons
Authors: Belcher, John R.
Journal Name: Journal of Community Psychology
Publication Date: 2006
A naturalistic study that focuses on the process of homelessness after psychiatric hospitalization is presented. The posthospital adjustments of 132 former patients were examined for 6 months. Thirty-six percent of these individuals became homeless, and a qualitative research approach was used to frame four categories that described how individuals in each category moved into homelessness. Categories identified were the Wanderers, Tenuous Planners, Socially Disadvantaged Homeless, and the Dropouts. Su...
Tags: mental health; theory; case study; socially disadvantaged homeless; Mental Health Problems and Mental Disorders
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Street Kids: Towards An Understanding of Their Motivational Context
Authors: Taylor, Donald M.; Lydon, John E.; Bougie, Évelyne; Johannesen, Kiraz
Journal Name: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science
Publication Date: 2004
The focus of the present research was the daily behaviours and goals of a sample of urban homeless youth, or, as they prefer, "street kids." The challenge of choosing an appropriate control sample was resolved by comparing street kids to two separate samples: University students and young people from a community club in a poor neighbourhood. A standard interview requiring daily recall of behaviour on an hour-by-hour basis, and ratings on 10-point scales to a series of questions focusing on motivation,...
Tags: homeless; theory; adolescent behavior; homeless youth; behavior; psychological aspects; research; motivation psychology; Demography & Characteristics of Homelessness
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Need and Generosity: How Markets for Free Goods Equilibrate
Authors: O'Flaherty, Brendan
Journal Name: Journal of Urban Economics
Publication Date: 2003
When more people use emergency food pantries or homeless shelters, how can an observer tell whether the change is being driven by greater need among users or greater generosity among donors? Why are serious and long-standing gluts and shortages relatively rare in both the emergency food system and the emergency shelter system? I answer both questions together by developing a model of the supply and demand for nonpriced goods. Quality plays the role in this model that price plays in standard model. Qua...
Tags: theory; altruism; Definitions, Estimates and report cards; Demography & Characteristics of Homelessness; Cost Analysis of Homelessness
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Homelessness - Causes & Effects (Volume 1): the Relationship Between Homelessness and the Health, Social Services, and Criminal Justice Systems: a Review of the Literature
Authors: Eberle, M.; Kraus, D.; Luba, S.; Hulchanski, D.; Centre for Urban and Community Studies and the University of Toronto; Canada
Publication Date: 2001
V. 1. The relationship between homelessness and the health, social services and criminal justice systems: a review of the literature -- v. 2. A profile, policy review and analysis of homelessness in British Columbia -- v. 3. The costs of homelessness in British Columbia -- v. 4. A profile and policy review of homelessness in the provinces of Ontario, Quebec and Alberta: background report.
Tags: theory; Legal & Justice Issues; access to supports and services; crime; Health and Community Services