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In the Midst of Plenty

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248 Seiten
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Wiley-IEEE Presserschienen am24.01.20201. Auflage
Foreword 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 our understanding of the phenomenon of homelessness away from issues of individual disability and embeds it in 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 book is organized around four questions: Who becomes homeless? Why do people become homeless? How do we end homelessness? How do we prevent it? Based on a comprehensive look at relevant research, the authors show that we know how to end homelessness-if 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 professionals and decision-makers in the homeless services system, as well as for anyone who is interested in helping to end homelessness. It also can be used as a text in undergraduate or masters courses in public policy, sociology, psychology, social work, urban studies, or housing policy.

'The knowledgeable and thoughtful authors of this book-two brilliant women who know as much as anyone in the country about the nature of homelessness and its solutions-have done a great service by taking us on a journey through the history of homelessness, how our responses have changed, and how we can end it.' Nan Roman, President and CEO National Alliance to End Homelessness.

'Shinn and Khadduri's new book is a thorough yet concise examination of what we know about the nature and causes of homelessness, and the crucial lessons learned. This critically important work provides a roadmap to restoring basic housing and income security as viable policy options, in the face of our daunting inequality divide that otherwise threatens millions with destitution and homelessness.' Dennis Culhane, Dana and Andrew Stone Professor of Social Policy, University of Pennsylvania

'Marybeth Shinn and Jill Khadduri have combined their significant expertise to create an essential guide about the history of modern homelessness and to offer a clear path forward to end this American tragedy. Their policy recommendations on ending homelessness are culled from the best about what we know works.' Barbara Poppe, Executive Director US Interagency Council on Homeless, 2009-2014.



MARYBETH SHINN, PHD, is a Cornelius Vanderbilt professor at Vanderbilt University. She co-led the Family Options Study of different approaches to ending family homelessness, evaluated the initial study of the Pathways Housing First experiment, and developed a model used by New York City to target its homelessness prevention services.
JILL KHADDURI, PHD, is a principal associate and senior fellow at Abt Associates. She co-leads the Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR), has played leading roles in several important studies of both homelessness and housing policy for two decades, and served as Director of the Policy Development Division of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.mehr
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KlappentextForeword 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 our understanding of the phenomenon of homelessness away from issues of individual disability and embeds it in 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 book is organized around four questions: Who becomes homeless? Why do people become homeless? How do we end homelessness? How do we prevent it? Based on a comprehensive look at relevant research, the authors show that we know how to end homelessness-if 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 professionals and decision-makers in the homeless services system, as well as for anyone who is interested in helping to end homelessness. It also can be used as a text in undergraduate or masters courses in public policy, sociology, psychology, social work, urban studies, or housing policy.

'The knowledgeable and thoughtful authors of this book-two brilliant women who know as much as anyone in the country about the nature of homelessness and its solutions-have done a great service by taking us on a journey through the history of homelessness, how our responses have changed, and how we can end it.' Nan Roman, President and CEO National Alliance to End Homelessness.

'Shinn and Khadduri's new book is a thorough yet concise examination of what we know about the nature and causes of homelessness, and the crucial lessons learned. This critically important work provides a roadmap to restoring basic housing and income security as viable policy options, in the face of our daunting inequality divide that otherwise threatens millions with destitution and homelessness.' Dennis Culhane, Dana and Andrew Stone Professor of Social Policy, University of Pennsylvania

'Marybeth Shinn and Jill Khadduri have combined their significant expertise to create an essential guide about the history of modern homelessness and to offer a clear path forward to end this American tragedy. Their policy recommendations on ending homelessness are culled from the best about what we know works.' Barbara Poppe, Executive Director US Interagency Council on Homeless, 2009-2014.



MARYBETH SHINN, PHD, is a Cornelius Vanderbilt professor at Vanderbilt University. She co-led the Family Options Study of different approaches to ending family homelessness, evaluated the initial study of the Pathways Housing First experiment, and developed a model used by New York City to target its homelessness prevention services.
JILL KHADDURI, PHD, is a principal associate and senior fellow at Abt Associates. She co-leads the Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR), has played leading roles in several important studies of both homelessness and housing policy for two decades, and served as Director of the Policy Development Division of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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Erscheinungsjahr2020
Erscheinungsdatum24.01.2020
Auflage1. Auflage
ReiheContemporary Social Issues
Seiten248 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
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Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
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 213mehr
Leseprobe
1
Who Becomes Homeless?

Victor, a mason in his 50s, had run a family business repairing swimming pools and owned a large house and a car. After a heart attack and triple bypass surgery, he was prescribed the opioid oxycodone to manage the pain. He became addicted, then switched to heroin when the cost of oxycodone became $30 per pill. Estranged from his family as a result of his addiction, and having spent all his savings, Victor lost his home and his rights to visit his daughter as well. After a summer living in woods and parks, he found help at a homeless shelter and has been working on moving past his addiction and rebuilding his life.

Jasmine and her partner moved to North Carolina with their children. She got a job transfer with the same retailer she had been working for full-time in New Jersey, but only a part-time position was available. They lived with her partner's grandmother for some months, but then the grandmother had a stroke and had to move in with her daughter, who could not also house Jasmine's family. Jasmine and the children went to a hotel, which initially let her pay what she could. Then an emergency grant through her employer kicked in some rent. She took a second job at a fast food restaurant, at times leaving the children alone in the hotel. By chance, in the checkout line of the retail store where she works, she met the director of a program that helps homeless people move into rental housing.

William is a 57-year-old veteran with a non-combat-related disability, a back problem that occurred after he had left the service, and was working in the food industry. Without a job for 8âyears, Social Security Disability payments were his only source of income, and he understood that they would no longer be available if he tried to work full-time. William had lived in his own apartment for 5 or 6âyears, but after drawing down his savings, he could no longer pay the rent. His aunt offered to help out but only if he found something less expensive. William didn't want to leave his home but eventually moved out and became homeless, sometimes staying in a family member's attic. His sister suggested that, because he was a veteran, he might try the Veterans Administration (VA) for help. He did that and started to receive medical care through the VA and also short-term rental assistance.

Bunny, a feisty woman who walks with a cane, struggles with mental health issues related to childhood trauma. Anxiety, depression, and some level of cognitive impairment make it difficult for her to express her needs. At 52, and with a grown son and daughter, she has moved many times, been evicted repeatedly, and had several episodes of homelessness. She is estranged from her son, and her mental health challenges would appear to make it difficult for her to live with her daughter or anyone else. Her daughter does show up from time to time with food and cleaning supplies.

Anthea, a 22-year-old mother to a 3-year-old and a 1-year-old, had never been able to afford a place of her own. She moved out of her mother's home into her partner's mother's double-wide in a small town. The couple intended to buy the trailer, but Anthea's partner became abusive. She left him one Wednesday night and showed up at the door of a shelter with her children. She couldn't get into that shelter, so she and the children prepared to bed down on the street. A passer-by called the police who showed up and helped them get into a different shelter.

Ricardo, a soft-spoken man with glasses perched on top of his head, came to a city in the Northeast from Puerto Rico at age 50, hoping to find work and bring his wife and young son to join him. Finding he could not afford the rent in this very expensive city, he stayed in a shelter for homeless people for a year, working a job during most of the time, and then got into a program that provides help with the rent. His wife and son have managed to get to the same city but are living in a different apartment, having figured out assistance in another way.

Michelle first became homeless as a new mother at 22. She was working two jobs and lost one of them. My daughter was in daycare. I couldn't get affordable daycare for her. It was like I was stuck and I couldn't afford the rent anymore. I had to move out. Came home to stay with family members, mom, whoever I could at the time. She was evicted from her apartment, the first she'd had in her name. Over the next 8âyears, she experienced similar cycles of unstable employment, childcare challenges, births of additional children, and homelessness. Before entering a program that helps homeless people obtain affordable housing, she and her children had spent a year and a half moving between different hotels or shelters when their money ran out. She was paying about $400 a week for hotel stays but could not save enough money for up-front move-in costs (first and last months' rent and security deposit) and had an eviction on her record.

Jermaine left home for the last time at age 15. I remember my dad used to put me out at the age of like 15. I live with myself and been on my own since I was like 13, in a certain sense. I used to run away. Me and my sisters used to jump out of a window and run away. We used to sleep in abandoned cars. I've been a survivor though. He floated from friend's house to friend's house and between a city in North Carolina and Kansas City, where he had extended family. He became involved with selling drugs at 21 and when he got into trouble in one city, he would move to the other, bouncing back and forth for years and living with family members, friends, on the street, or in his truck. He was staying in his truck at the time a friend of his told him about the rapid re-housing program he entered. Based on that friend's knowledge of the process, he sucked up my pride and entered a shelter for the first time, at age 35 so he could put in his application.

These examples may or may not jibe with common views of who becomes homeless in the United States in the twenty-first century, but all the stories in this book are about real people (we have changed their names).1 In addition to showing the variety of pathways into homelessness, they exemplify categories of people that have been developed to help governments and social service systems respond to homelessness: adults homeless on their own, families homeless together with their children, veterans who become homeless after serving their country, young people who fall into homelessness after leaving their parents, and people whose patterns of homelessness are sustained or chronic.

Efforts to classify people who become homeless go back half a millennium. In 1528, Martin Luther took a turn. His Book of Vagabonds and Beggars cataloged 28 varieties, ranging from Bregers, or beggars who simply ask an alms for God's or the Holy Virgin's sake to Schleppers, or false begging priests to Süntregers, or pretended murderers, who say they have taken a man's life in self-defense, and unless they bring money at the right time they will have their heads cut off (Ribton-Turner, 1887).

Early twentieth-century researchers had the same taxonomic impulse. For example, Solenberger (1911) profiled 1,000 homeless men who sought help from the city of Chicago from 1900 to 1903 in a book with chapters on homeless old men, chronic beggars, confirmed wanderers or tramps , and homeless, vagrant and runaway boys. She also described their disabilities or deficits, with chapters on the crippled and maimed, and the insane, feeble-minded, and epileptic.

The twin foci on classification and deficits remain dominant tropes today, although we prefer challenges as a less pejorative term than deficits for describing mental illness and other issues that some people who experience homelessness struggle with. For both scholars and citizens who try to make sense of the growth of homelessness in our streets, it is perhaps natural to ask what is wrong with the people we encounter there. The rest of this book suggests that if the goal is to understand the causes of homelessness and come up with solutions, there are more important questions to ask.

One reason is that first impressions are often misleading. For example, contrary to both Luther and Solenberger, most people experiencing homelessness today do not panhandle, and many who panhandle are not homeless (Dordick, O'Flaherty, Brounstein, Sinha, & Yoo, 2018; Lee & Farrell, 2003).

Another reason is that people encountered in the middle of a homeless episode are arguably at the worst point in their lives. Many of the people we introduced at the beginning of the chapter had jobs and social connections before (and sometimes during) the time they were homeless. And as some of their stories show-and others would if we followed them long enough-most people emerge from episodes of homelessness and return to housing. People's characteristics change, along with their housing status.

Because most episodes of homelessness are fairly brief, far more people have encountered homelessness during their lives than are homeless on any given night. Indeed, as we will show later in this chapter, one of every 14 adult Americans...
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