Housing, Homelessness, and Social Policy in the Urban North brings together leading scholars on northern urban housing across the Canadian North, Alaska, and Gr
This book explores the myriad ways in which northern urban places foster new forms of community-building and social inclusion for people experiencing homelessne
Chronic homelessness is a highly complex social problem of national importance. The problem has elicited a variety of societal and public policy responses over
The major theme in this book is that people are homeless because of structural arrangements and trends that result in extreme impoverishment and a shortage of a
Based on interviews with 40 homeless persons conducted in Chicago, Denver and Tampa in 1986-1988; presents their life stories, including their accounts of the c
