Street Is Not a Home Solving America's Homeless Dilemma

Name: Street Is Not a Home Solving America's Homeless Dilemma
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ISBN: 9780879756215

ISBN-10: 0879756217

ISBN-13: 9780879756215

Edition: 1990

Authors: Robert C. Coates

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Like many politicians, reporters, social workers, and others concerned about the homeless, Robert C. Coates lived for a short time on the street. But rather than returning from his mission with yet another set of platitudes about the problem, the experience set him on the road to find answers. The result is A Street is Not a Home.Coates' involvement with homelessness began as an exploration into judicial ethics, but quickly developed into something far more sweeping. A Street is Not a Home is not another recapitulation of the problem but a mosaic of workable solutions that Coates has seen evolve in municipalities across the nation. Coates dismisses opinions that the homeless dilemma is one…

Book details

List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Publishers
Publication date: 12/1/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 356
Size: 5.40" wide x 8.40" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Foreword


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The New Homeless



Planning Help



The Mayor's Task Force in the Streets



An Easy Early Step: Public Drunks



Women and Children



The Elderly Homeless



Homeless Veterans



Runaway and Throwaway Kids



Cycling Able-Bodied Homeless into Jobs



Model Homeless Shelters



Affordable Housing



The Homeless Mentally III



Involuntary Treatment?



Myths, Mental Barriers, and Bad Ideas



Going to the State Capital



Public Restrooms (a Nimby Study)



Conundra



The Sine Qua Non: Leadership



Ethics



Mobilizing Religious Congregations and Religious People



Economics ..



""""How Can I Help?""""



We Can Handle It!



Legal Rights of Homeless Americans



Housing and Homeless Bond Act of 1988



Assistance to Homeless Persons


Notes