Download or read book Single Room Occupancy Hotels as a Partial Solution to the Issue of Homelessness written by Emma Louise Barnes Griswold and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Single Room Occupancy Hotels written by Simha Rosenberg and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Homeless and Old written by Charles Hoch and published by . This book was released on 1990-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blending detailed historical perspective with contemporary survey research, Charles Hoch and Robert Slayton argue that the answers to one of the most pressing problems of our time come from the poor themselves. Their examination of the Skid Row single room occupancy hotel (SRO) reveals how communities formed by low-income single-person households have for decades offered the security, personal autonomy, and privacy for the "old" homeless that the "new" homeless lack. And they show how public urban renewal efforts, which destroyed the bulk of these hotels with the intent to rid the inner city of the Skid Row homeless, actually laid the foundation for today's urban homeless crisis. Focusing on Chicago from 1870 to the present, but including case studies in other cities, Hoch and Slayton analyze how these SRO hotels operated in the past and claim that the term "flop house" really described a wide range of shelter types available to the poor according to their economic conditions. Based on their research, the authors conclude that policies for solving the homeless problem should focus mainly not on the homeless people, but on the institutional actors who benefit directly and indirectly from their predicament. This means changing public policies that encourage the destruction of affordable housing, especially SRO hotels, and implementing preservation, rehabilitation, and new construction policies instead. Author note: Charles Hoch is Associate Professor in the School of Urban Planning and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Robert A. Slayton is Assistant Professor of History at Chapman College and author of Back of the Yards: The Making of a Local Democracy.
Download or read book Housing Risks and Homelessness Among the Urban Elderly written by Sharon Marie Keigher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1991 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book presents the latest research on homelessness among the urban elderly based on a comprehensive study of older people from a city emergency service agency in Chicago. Interviews with these elderly clients are analyzed to show how housing-related problems and substandard residential conditions lead to homelessness, institutionalization, and even death. In this timely volume, a variety of living situations that can lead to homelessness are examined, including those persons in need of temporary shelter, those living in deplorable housing conditions, those living in SROs (single room occupancy hotels), those who have always been homeless, and those who have never been without shelter but are without a permanent residence. Areas of risk for homelessness among the urban elderly are identified by statistical comparisons illustrated with specific case descriptions. Practical urban housing options providing professionals with solutions to housing problems are evaluated, in particular the more extensive use of SROs as a successful housing alternative for urban elderly. Issues of concern to policymakers and practitioners serving the elderly and the mentally ill, such as urban planners, outreach agencies, protective services, and other programs concerned with housing, will benefit from this vital research. Housing Risks and Homelessness Among the Urban Elderly ties together urban social policy with the resulting human consequences, creating an invaluable resource for researchers and academics, service planners, social administrators and community care officials. Filling a void in the current research literature, this informative volume explores avenues whereby elders lose their homes in the community, identifies circumstances surrounding their use of shelters for the homeless, and recognizes the range of social supports and services that preclude homelessness, all in order that homelessness among the urban elderly might be decreased and prevented.
Download or read book Homelessness written by United States Accounting Office (GAO) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RCED-92-215 Homelessness: Single Room Occupancy Program Achieves Goals, but HUD Can Increase Impact
Download or read book Homelessness Health and Human Needs written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1988-02-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have always been homeless people in the United States, but their plight has only recently stirred widespread public reaction and concern. Part of this new recognition stems from the problem's prevalence: the number of homeless individuals, while hard to pin down exactly, is rising. In light of this, Congress asked the Institute of Medicine to find out whether existing health care programs were ignoring the homeless or delivering care to them inefficiently. This book is the report prepared by a committee of experts who examined these problems through visits to city slums and impoverished rural areas, and through an analysis of papers written by leading scholars in the field.
Download or read book Housing the Homeless written by Monica Hay and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Portland Hotel project, located in the inner city neighbourhood of the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, was undertaken by the Downtown Eastside Residents Association (DERA) to add to the existing single room occupancy (SRO) housing stock. Hastily and poorly renovated by its owners, the hotel sat vacant for nearly two years. DERA saw an opportunity to return these units to the affordable housing stock and believed that a community-operated non-profit hotel provided a better alternative to the privately operated SRO stock. This report documents the efforts of DERA to provide secure, affordable housing for hard-to-house homeless persons living in the Downtown Eastside district of Vancouver. The report is divided into two parts. The first section describes the management agreement struck between the owners of the hotel and DERA. It also describes the various problems encountered with the upgrading and renovation of the hotel. Part II discusses the daily operation and management of the project, the range of services available to tenants, the needs and demands of the residents of the Portland Hotel, sources of funding, and staffing practices. Case studies of several tenants are also presented.
Download or read book Living Downtown written by Paul E. Groth and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the palace hotels of the elite to cheap lodging houses, residential hotels have been an element of American urban life for nearly two hundred years. Since 1870, however, they have been the target of an official war led by people whose concept of home does not include the hotel. Do these residences constitute an essential housing resource, or are they, as charged, a public nuisance? Living Downtown, the first comprehensive social and cultural history of life in American residential hotels, adds a much-needed historical perspective to this ongoing debate. Creatively combining evidence from biographies, buildings and urban neighborhoods, workplace records, and housing policies, Paul Groth provides a definitive analysis of life in four price-differentiated types of downtown residence. He demonstrates that these hotels have played a valuable socioeconomic role as home to both long-term residents and temporary laborers. Also, the convenience of hotels has made them the residence of choice for a surprising number of Americans, from hobo author Boxcar Bertha to Calvin Coolidge. Groth examines the social and cultural objections to hotel households and the increasing efforts to eliminate them, which have led to the seemingly irrational destruction of millions of such housing units since 1960. He argues convincingly that these efforts have been a leading contributor to urban homelessness. This highly original and timely work aims to expand the concept of the American home and to recast accepted notions about the relationships among urban life, architecture, and the public management of residential environments.
Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1995-06-12 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Download or read book The Homeless written by Tamara L. Roleff and published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1996 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of opposing viewpoints discusses the problems and causes of homelessness.
Download or read book A Right to Housing written by Rachel G. Bratt and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of America's housing crisis by the leading progressive housing activists in the country.
Download or read book Homelessness written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Housing America written by Emily Tumpson Molina and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an effort to explain why housing remains among the United States’ most enduring social problems, Housing America explores five of the U.S.’s most fundamental, recurrent issues in housing its population: affordability of housing, homelessness, segregation and discrimination in the housing market, homeownership and home financing, and planning. It describes these issues in detail, why they should be considered problems, the history and fundamental social debates surrounding them, and the past, current, and possible policy solutions to address them. While this book focuses on the major problems we face as a society in housing our population, it is also about the choices we make about what is valued in our society in our attempts to solve them. Housing America is appropriate for courses in urban studies, urban planning, and housing policy.
Download or read book Seasons Such As These written by Cynthia J. Bogard and published by AldineTransaction. This book was released on 2003 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homelessness had become a social problem that was primarily not about solving the nation's housing crisis. The pressing question becomes: How (and why) did homelessness become the social problem in its own right, one that was only tangentially related to the problem of inappropriate or insufficient housing? Why, when people demanded that something be done about homelessness, did they get specific policies and unintended outcomes? Cynthia Bogard is not content with the shorthand answers that rested on bias and ideology, such as "conservative politics bred conservative policies" or "American individualism precludes government investment in housing." This did not explain homelessness sufficiently, especially given all the advocacy and research that had occurred in the 1980s and 1990s. Examining these "claimsmaking activities," as constructionists call them, however, is a daunting task because the activities engaged in by people in the attempt to persuade others are fluid, subtle, and complicated as are the responses to these social actions. This raised a second set of issues that the author is concerned with: How can we adequately represent and sociologically examine this very complicated human activity of social problems construction? Who does the construction, and to what effect? Bogard's answer to these questions is a book that can be read in two ways and on multiple levels. For those who are interested in the story of the career of homelessness as a social problem in America's two "national" cities, the book should be read from the beginning through the conclusion as a straight narrative. The technical matter in the appendix can be ignored. But for those readers with an interest in social problems constructionism, however, this book is meant as a "cook-book" of sorts. Each chapter emphasizes a feature of constructionism, such as an important group of claims makers or an important aspect of the claims making process. The work highlights a major feature in advanced societies: the intersection of interests and claims. Social constructions may be real, but they are comprised of no less real social interests. The work marks a real departure and advance over the original formulations of construction theory in social research. Cynthia J. Bogard is associate professor of sociology at Hofstra University.
Download or read book Permanent Supportive Housing written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-08-11 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronic homelessness is a highly complex social problem of national importance. The problem has elicited a variety of societal and public policy responses over the years, concomitant with fluctuations in the economy and changes in the demographics of and attitudes toward poor and disenfranchised citizens. In recent decades, federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, and the philanthropic community have worked hard to develop and implement programs to solve the challenges of homelessness, and progress has been made. However, much more remains to be done. Importantly, the results of various efforts, and especially the efforts to reduce homelessness among veterans in recent years, have shown that the problem of homelessness can be successfully addressed. Although a number of programs have been developed to meet the needs of persons experiencing homelessness, this report focuses on one particular type of intervention: permanent supportive housing (PSH). Permanent Supportive Housing focuses on the impact of PSH on health care outcomes and its cost-effectiveness. The report also addresses policy and program barriers that affect the ability to bring the PSH and other housing models to scale to address housing and health care needs.
Download or read book Homelessness written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Writing Arguments written by Allyn & Bacon, Incorporated and published by . This book was released on 2000-07 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
