American Homelessness: A Reference Handbook 3rd Edition (Contemporary World Issues)

With 50 percent new material this third edition breaks this complex topic into key elements examining the roots of the problem programs that address it current research and public perceptions of homelessness.American Homelessness covers who the homeless are and why they are in such a situation; important events that have contributed to the problem; and a whos who of homelessness activism including people such as MacArthur Fellow Robert M. Hayes the former securities lawyer who filed the landmark New York City right-to-shelter case in l979. It also includes a chronology; facts and statistics; key documents and reports; a discussion of the International Bill of Rights; a directory of organizations associations and government agencies; and an annotated bibliography.Documents include European legislation on homelessness the International Bill of Rights and the Istanbul Declaration on Human SettlementsIncludes a directory of organizations associations and government agencies―national federal and international