causes of homelessness
type: Concept
broader: homelessness

community and urban issues
type: Concept
related: homelessness

concepts
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: homelessness

demography and characteristics of homelessness
type: Concept
broader: homelessness

economics and stratification
type: Concept
related: homelessness

effects of poverty
type: Concept
related: homelessness

gender and family
type: Concept
related: homelessness

history of homelessness
type: Concept
broader: homelessness

homeless lifestyle
type: Concept
broader: homelessness

homeless service systems
type: Concept
broader: homelessness

homelessness
type: Concept
broader: social problems
definition: Homelessness has existed in North America from colonial days, but it emerges as a public and political issue only episodically. Previous periods of public concern in the United States have included the great leap toward industrialization and urbanization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Depression of the 1930s, and the Skid Row, post–World War II era (c. [Source: Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World; Homelessness]
narrower: perceptions of homelessness
narrower: hoovervilles
narrower: homeless lifestyle
narrower: tent cities
narrower: homelessness and health
narrower: history of homelessness
narrower: demography and characteristics of homelessness
narrower: single-room occupancy housing
narrower: causes of homelessness
narrower: homeless service systems
narrower: housing and homelessness
narrower: homelessness research
narrower: homelessness policy
narrower: homelessness organizations
related: urban geography
related: gender and family
related: urban issues
related: community and urban issues
related: poverty and social class
related: urban life/criminology theory
related: proximate communities
related: sociology of law
related: effects of poverty
related: housing
related: economics and stratification
related: social life
related: issues students face

homelessness and health
type: Concept
broader: homelessness

homelessness organizations
type: Concept
broader: homelessness

homelessness policy
type: Concept
broader: homelessness

homelessness research
type: Concept
broader: homelessness

hoovervilles
type: Concept
broader: homelessness

housing
type: Concept
related: homelessness

housing and homelessness
type: Concept
broader: homelessness

issues students face
type: Concept
related: homelessness

perceptions of homelessness
type: Concept
broader: homelessness

poverty and social class
type: Concept
related: homelessness

proximate communities
type: Concept
related: homelessness

single-room occupancy housing
type: Concept
broader: homelessness

social life
type: Concept
related: homelessness

social problems
type: Concept
narrower: homelessness

sociology of law
type: Concept
related: homelessness

tent cities
type: Concept
broader: homelessness

urban geography
type: Concept
related: homelessness

urban issues
type: Concept
related: homelessness

urban life/criminology theory
type: Concept
related: homelessness