Homelessness in the United States State Surveys

Subjects:

• Sociology » Sociology (General)

Reviews:

• This volume (1 of 2 projected) reads and holds together well even though each of the 14 chapters was written by a different individual or group, covers a different section of the country, uses different types of data sources and analytical methods, and evidences differing perspectives. All essays focus on definition by quality and quantity of the contemporary homeless in the United States; all offer suggested palliatives. An excellent foreword and introduction (Bruce Weigand, Howard M. Bahr) put everything in context: the overriding necessity for the continued use of a careful social science methodology to gain understanding of the causes and magnitude of this complex national and local, social and individual, political and economic problem. Highly recommended to academics, professionals, and interested laypersons.
  —Library Journal

• Endorsement From Howard M. Bahr: This book represents a noteworthy advance over most of the existing literature on homelessness. In the area of inquiry marked by a multitude of local studies and innumerable bureaucractic reports, a field of study in which systematic attention to the regional or national context is notably lacking, Professor Momeni aims to correlate, to integrate, via state-by-state assessment of contemporary homelessness.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword by Bruce Wiegad
• Preface by Jamshid A. Momeni
• Introduction Howard M. Bahr
• Homelessness in Alabama: A Variety of People by Mark La Gory, Ferris J. Ritchey, Timothy O'Donoghue, and Jeffrey Mullis
• Homelessness in Colorado by Hazel Morrow-Jones and Willem van Vliet
• Homelessness in Florida by Doug A. Timmer and J. David Knottnerus
• Homelessness in the Frostbelt: The Case of Illinois by Peter Kivisto
• Homelessness in Massachusetts: Description and Analysis by Gerald R. Garrett and Russell K. Schutt
• Homelessness in Missouri: Populations, Problems, and Policy by Julia S. Kunz
• Homelessness in New Jersey: The Social Service Network and the People Served by Gerald R. Gioglio
• Homelessness in New York: A Demographic and Socioeconomic Analysis by Thomas Hirschl and Jamshid A. Momeni
• The Homeless in Ohio: A Statewide Epidemiological Stud by Dee Roth
• Homelessness in the Pacific Northwest by Gerald F. Blake and Martin L. Abbott
• Homelessness in Tennessee by Barrett A. Lee
• Homelessness in Texas: Estimates of Population Size and Demographic Composition by Susan G. Baker and David A. Snow
• Homelessness in Utah by Judith T. Maurin and Leslie Russell
• Homelessess in Virginia: Dimensions of the Problem and Public Reaction by David G. Bromley, Daniel M. Johnson, David W. Hartman, and Alexis L. Ruffin
• Index