causes of homelessness
community and urban issues
concepts
demography and characteristics of homelessness
economics and stratification
effects of poverty
gender and family
history of homelessness
homeless lifestyle
homeless service systems
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]
homelessness
homelessness and health
homelessness organizations
homelessness policy
homelessness research
hoovervilles
housing
housing and homelessness
issues students face
perceptions of homelessness
poverty and social class
proximate communities
single-room occupancy housing
social life
social problems
sociology of law
tent cities
urban geography
urban issues
urban life/criminology theory