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The most accurate and comprehensive picture of homelessness to date, this study offers a powerful explanation of its causes, proposes short- and long-term solutions, and documents the striking contrasts between the homeless of the 1950s and 1960s and the contemporary homeless population, which is younger and contains more women, children, and blacks.

Down and Out in America

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    A Paperback / softback by Peter H. Rossi

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 26 February 1991
      ISBN-13 9780226728292
      978-0226728292
      ISBN-10 0226728293
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      Housing and homelessness

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      Book Synopsis
      The most accurate and comprehensive picture of homelessness to date, this study offers a powerful explanation of its causes, proposes short- and long-term solutions, and documents the striking contrasts between the homeless of the 1950s and 1960s and the contemporary homeless population, which is younger and contains more women, children, and blacks.

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