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informative and up-to-date treatment of current social policy and social action regarding homelessness, including an analysis of recent legislation, current services, nonprofit agency responses, ongoing legal battles, and the emerging 'homeless movement.

Home Browse Books Book details, Gimme Shelter: A Social History of Homelessness. During the last 15 years of his life, homeless activist Mitch Snyder-who committed suicide in July 1990-struggled valiantly on behalf of the nation's homeless, destitute, and powerless. Gimme Shelter: A Social History of Homelessness in Contemporary America. There were pray-ins, eat-ins, cage-ins, jump-ins, and, yes, laugh-ins. There was even a TV movie made about his life with the homeless.

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According to current projections, the number of homeless in the United States will continue to swell in the 1990s unless more aggressive efforts to combat the problem are initiated

According to current projections, the number of homeless in the United States will continue to swell in the 1990s unless more aggressive efforts to combat the problem are initiated. Based upon a thorough analysis of the underlying social and political causes of homelessness in this country, this study takes a hard look at the realities and misconceptions that surround the victims.

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Homelessness is the condition of people lacking "a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence" as defined by The McKinney–Vento Homeless Assistance Act. According to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development's Annual Ho. . According to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development's Annual Homeless Assessment Report, as of 2018 there were around 553,000 homeless people in the United States on a given night, or . 7% of the population.

Why are people Homeless? Two main trends are largely responsible for the rise in homelessness over the past .

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