...This chapter applies the analysis in Chapter 1 to the more specific issue of government responses to homelessness in the 1945–77 period. Attention centres on competing analyses of the causes of contemporary homelessness, and on the various efforts to address the problem made by central and local...

...This chapter analyzes the interpretation and application of two of the Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 1977's discretion-laden components: priority need and homelessness. It identifies a few threads which might begin to offer tentative explanations of why each authority exhibits differential...

...This chapter details the departure of Gotama from the palace for a homeless life. Life in the palace became ugly and gloomy. One day an inhabitant of the heavens appeared before Gotama in the form of an ascetic. The recluse told him that his knowledge that life was nothing more than an endless...

...Chapter 3 is a detailed description of the major overarching policy that guides school-based practice with children and youth experiencing homelessness. The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (MVA) is the major federal policy on homelessness, and this chapter teases out the major educational...

...Chapter 4 builds on the information covered in Chapter 3. Whereas Chapter 3 was a description of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (MVA), chapter 4 delves into the practice, assessment, and efficacy of the policy as it relates to school-based practice with children and youth experiencing...

...This book is one of the first books to focus on child homelessness in the context of school social work and related professional practice. More and more families are experiencing homelessness as America comes out of the recession and housing crisis. This increase is particularly felt in schools...

... that vulnerable populations do not enjoy a trouble-free transition to adulthood. But beyond the special circumstances of youth aging out of foster care, those existing within the criminal justice system, or homeless youth, many others in not so perilous a position find themselves deprived, especially when things...

... to tend to their needs. This led the two Quakers to consider opening a home for homeless children of color. The COA was formed on November 26, 1836, in the home of William Shotwell. The founders decided upon the name “colored” in deference to the community's sensibilities. Colored Orphan Asylum Murray...

...This chapter takes a look at the homeless men in San Francisco, California, to identify a spectrum of street discourses on the causes and character of homelessness. Taking up popular discourses of sin, sickness, and the failure of the social system, men on the street reworked, blended...

...This chapter takes a look at San Francisco’s lively and harmonious homeless subculture built around recycling, through which hundreds of homeless pros laid claim to old-fashioned blue-collar masculinity. Spending their days energetically collecting bottles and cans, these homeless men developed...

...This chapter takes a look at San Francisco’s homeless men living under the shelter system to assess their experience in more service-rich environments. Here, social workers and counselors tried to help men and women by providing a safe island for therapeutic intervention, but their successes were...

...This introductory chapter provides a background to the social forces and sets of relationships that outlines the contemporary urban governance in Cape Town. It talks about brutal gang wars linked to drug trade and homeless people harassed by police or private security guards, which describe...

...This chapter evaluates the Dundee Families Project, which was established to help families who are homeless or at a severe risk of homelessness as a result of ASB. The Dundee Families Project was developed in response to a number of factors. One of these was the pressure faced by the local...

...This chapter addresses the issue of queer Latino coming-of-age narratives with special attention to urban youth homelessness. Specifically, this chapter analyzes Emilio Rodriguez’s play Swimming While Drowning. While not explicitly written for young audiences, Swimming...

...In this chapter I will talk about my experiences as a homeless girl and adult woman, and my struggles to get authorities to take my situation seriously. I also talk about my feelings surrounding my own experience of homelessness, the stigmatisation I felt while homeless, as well as the lack...

...Oxford University Press This chapter presents background information about homeless youth and suggested counseling strategies for use by school-based counselors who work with young people who are homeless. Homelessness is a growing problem for students, and students who experience homelessness...

...This chapter considers how mentally ill homeless people in New York City rework psychiatric personhood and patienthood outside clinical networks, examining the interstitiality and uncertainty of these homeless people, which requires constant negotiation of identity as they go through a generalized...

...This chapter addresses policies and practices promoting equitable services for LGBT homeless or runaway youth by presenting the case study of Sari, a young person involved in multiple service systems. An ideal, seamless systems-of-care approach to service delivery, including education, housing...

...This chapter is a close reading of Wendy and Lucy, a film loosely based on the depictions of disaster victims and the perceived governmental failing to provide and protect those affected by Hurricane Katrina. It is Reichardt’s political statement about being homeless and female...

.... This chapter examines various social forces that conspired to produce some dogs as pets and others as unwanted shelter animals, as well as concrete recommendations for how we might close that gap. It argues that the problem of homeless pets that end up in animal shelters arises because pets are treated...