Tent City 3

Readings: On Homelessness

Homelessness: An Overview

"The New Homelessness Revisited" – Barrett A Lee, Kimberly A. Tyler, and James D. Wright, Annual Review of Sociology, 2010, 36:501-21

"Managing Homelessness in the United States" – Teresa Gowan, Chapter 2 of Hobos, Hustlers and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco, 2010, University of Minnesota Press

"Tent Cities: An Interim Solution to Homelessness and Affordable Housing Shortages in the United States" (PDF) – Zoe Loftus-Farren, California Law Review, 2011:1037-1082

"Hunger and Homelessness Survey: Executive Summary" (PDF) – The United Conference of Majors, December 2011

"A Roof Over Every Bed: Our Community's Ten-Year Plan to End Homelessness in King County" (PDF) – Committee to End Homelessness King County

Faith, Religion and Homelessness

"There's No Place Like Home" – Steven Bouma-Prediger and Brian J. Walsh, Chapter 1, Beyond Homelessness: Christian Faith in a Culture of Displacement, 2008, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

"The Aroma of Christ" – Ryan Beiler, Sojourners Magazine, November-December, 2001, 30(6): 36-37

"Not at Home: Rethinking Hospitality and Homelessness" – Bryne Lewis, The Church and Postmodern Culture, January 7, 2012

Faces of the Homeless

"Faces of the Homeless: A Photo Essay" – Joan Kadri Zald, City & Community, 2004, 3(1):29-42

"Who Are the Homeless?" – James D. Wright, Chapter 4, Address Unknown: The Homeless in America, 2009[1989], Aldine Transaction

Women and Homelessness

"Causes of Homelessness: Homeless Women Speak" – Jean Calterone Williams, Chapter 1, A Roof Over My Head, 2003, University Press of Colorado

"Risk Factors and Routine Activities" – Jana L. Jasinski, Jennifer K. Wesely, James D. Wright and Elizabeth E. Mustaine, Chapter 5, Hard Lives, Mean Streets: Violence in the Lives of Homeless Women, 2010, Northeastern University Press

"My Friends, My God, Myself" – Elliot Liebow, Chapter 5, Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women, 1993, Penguin Books

Families, Children, and Homelessness

"Children's Perceptions of Homelessness" – Velinda DeForge and Sandra Zehnder, Pediatric Nursing, 2011, 27(4): 377-383

"Rachel and Her Children" – Jonathan Kozol, Chapter 4, Rachel and Her Children, 2006[1988], Three Rivers Press.

"The fastest-growing group among local homeless: families" – The Seattle Times, September 9, 2010

"Gates housing-first plan doesn't come with money" – The Seattle Times, August 30, 2010

"Refugees face homelessness all over again in U.S." – The Seattle Times, August 30, 2010

Housing

"Housing First: Ending Homelessness, Promoting Recovery, and Reducing Costs" – Sam Tsemberis, Chapter 3, How to House the Homeless (edited by Ingrid Gould Ellen and Brendan O'Flaherty), 2010, Russell Sage Foundation

"America's Affordable Housing Crisis: A Contract Unfilled" – Lance Freeman, American Journal of Public Health, 2002, 92(5):709-712

"The Growth of a Movement for a Human Right to Housing in the United States" – Maria Foscarinis, Harvard Human Rights Journal, 2007, 20: 35–40

Social Advocacy, Social Movement, and Social Policy

"Why We Have Homeless and Extreme Poverty and What to Do About Them" – Peter H. Rossi, Chapter 7, Down and Out in American: The Origins of Homeless, 1989, The University of Chicago Press

"Homelessness and Social Policy" – Peter Blau, Chapter 11, The Visible Poor: Homelessness in the United States, 1992, Oxford University Press

"Homelessness and Common Human Needs" – Peter Blau, Chapter 12, The Visible Poor: Homelessness in the United States, 1992, Oxford University Press

"Homelessness, Ecumenicalism and Politics in Racine, Wisconsin" – Laura L. Olson, Chapter 6, Religious Interests in Community Conflict: Beyond the Culture Wars, 2007, Baylor University Press

"Faith-Based Programs and Their Influence on Homelessness" – Ben Gray Bass, Family & Community Health, 2009, 32(4):314-319

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