Concept information
Preferred term
homelessness
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]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- causes of homelessness
- demography and characteristics of homelessness
- history of homelessness
- homeless lifestyle
- homelessness and health
- homelessness organizations
- homelessness policy
- homelessness research
- homeless service systems
- hoovervilles
- housing and homelessness
- perceptions of homelessness
- single-room occupancy housing
- tent cities
Belongs to group
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/homelessness
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