Description
Book SynopsisForeword by Nan Roman, President and CEO of the National Alliance to End Homelessness
This book explains how to end the U.S. homelessness crisis by bringing together the best scholarship on the subject and sharing solutions that both local communities and national policy-makers can apply now.
In the Midst of Plenty shifts understanding of homelessness away from individual disability to larger contexts of poverty, income inequality, housing affordability, and social exclusion. Homelessness experts Shinn and Khadduri provide guidance on how to end homelessness for people who experience it and how to prevent so many people from reaching the point where they have no alternative to sleeping on the street or in emergency shelters. The authors show that we know how to end homelessnessif we devote the necessary resources to doing so.
In the Midst of Plenty: Homelessness and What to Do About It is an excellent resource for policy-makers, profe
Table of Contents
Foreword xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1
1 Who Becomes Homeless? 5
2 What Causes Homelessness? 33
3 Ending Homelessness for People Who Experience It 71
4 Comprehensive Efforts to End Homelessness 91
5 Preventing Homelessness for People at Risk 121
6 Changing Societal Conditions that Generate Homelessness 149
References 179
Index 213
