Homelessness: A Sourcebook - Hardcover

Fantasia, Rick; Isserman, Maurice

9780816025718: Homelessness: A Sourcebook

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0816025711 ISBN 13: 9780816025718

Publisher: Facts on File, 1994

Provides a historical overview of the subject, and includes an encyclopedic section with such entries as: abandonment, AIDs, and outdoor relief

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From Library Journal:

This sourcebook is primarily a dictionary, explaining 500 items, persons, policies, organizations, court decisions, laws, etc., relevant to the topic of homelessness. Lengthy appendixes list organizations, some 1990 census figures, and an 84-page report, "A Status Report of Hunger and Homelessness in America's Cities: 1993" (U.S. Conference of Mayors, December 1993). The extensive bibliography has no subject access. Fantasia (sociology, Smith Coll.) and Isserman (history, Hamilton Coll.) open with an excellent introduction on the history and dimensions of the problem but fail to impart the scope and contents of the book. Compared with the several reference works available on homelessness, the strengths of this work are its highly informative dictionary entries and inclusion of the U.S. Conference of Mayor's report, a useful item that was not widely disseminated to libraries. Mary Ellen Hombs's American Homelessness (ABC-Clio, 1994. 2d ed.) provides more resource information with better organization and is thus the first choice for many libraries. Larger public and academic libraries should find both volumes useful.
Mary Jane Brustman, Univ of Albany Libs.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From School Library Journal:

YA?A valuable resource for students seeking information for position papers, current topics, and social-problem reports. Fantasia begins with a lengthy essay on homelessness that addresses the basic aspects of the problem: its scope and historical background; who makes up the homeless population; why it happens; and how it can be relieved. This essay is followed by alphabetically arranged entries on numerous subjects relevant to the topic, such as major court decisions, U.S. legislation, organizations and people who are involved in the problem, and public housing. Students can also find a wealth of information and statistics in the three appendixes: "Groups and Resources for the Homeless"; "Count of Persons in Selected Locations Where Homeless Persons Are Found"; and "A Status Report on Hunger and Homelessness in America's Cities: a 26 City Survey, 1993."?Carol Clark, R.E. Lee High School, Springfield, VA
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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