There's No Place like Home: Anthropological Perspectives on Housing and Homelessness in the United States by Anna Lou Dehavenon

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There's no place like home : anthropological perspectives on housing
and homelessness in the United States / edited by Anna Lou
Dehavenon.

p. cm.--(Contemporary urban studies, ISSN 1065-7002)
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 0-89789-484-7 (alk. paper)--ISBN 0-89789-661-0 (pbk.)

1. Homelessness-- United States--Congresses. 2. Homeless persons--
United States--Congresses. 3. Housing--United States--Congresses.
4. United States--Social policy--Congresses. I. Dehavenon, Anna Lou. II. Series.

HV4505.T48 1996

363.5′0973--dc20 96-10375

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available.

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be
reproduced, by any process or technique, without the
express written consent of the publisher.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 96-10375

ISBN: 0-89789-661-0 (pbk.)

ISSN: 1065-7002

First published in 1996

Bergin & Garvey, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881
An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.

Printed in the United States of America

∞ + ⃝™

The paper used in this book complies with the
Permanent Paper Standard issued by the National
Information Standards Organization (Z39.48-1984).

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Publication Information: Book Title: There's No Place like Home: Anthropological Perspectives on Housing and Homelessness in the United States. Contributors: Anna Lou Dehavenon - editor. Publisher: Bergin & Garvey Publishers. Place of Publication: Westport, CT. Publication Year: 1999. Page Number: iv.

Title Page

Recent Titles in Contemporary Urban Studies

Contents

Tables and Figures

Prologue: Azdak Lives

Notes

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Conclusion

Introduction

1: Poverty and Homelessness in Rural Upstate New York

Summary and Recommendations

Conclusion

Notes

Introduction

2: The 1990 Decennial Census and Patterns of Homelessness in a Small New England City

Summary and Recommendations

Conclusion

Note

3: Doubling-Up: A Strategy of Urban Reciprocity to Avoid Homelessness in Detroit

Introduction

Summury and Recommendations

Conclusion

Notes

4: Doubling-Up and New York City's Policies for Sheltering Homeless Families

Introduction

Summary and Recomendations

Conclusion

Introduction

5: A Home by Any Means Necessary: Government Policy on Squatting in the Public Housing of a Large Mid-Atlantic City

Summary and Recommendations

Conclusion

Notes

6: Huts for the Homeless: A Low- Technology Approach for Squatters in Atlanta, Georgia

Introduction

Summary and Recommendations

Conclusion

Introduction

7: Piety and Poverty: The Religious Response to the Homeless in Albuquerque, New Mexico

Summary and Recommendations

Conclusion

8: Suburban Homelessness and Social Space: Strategies of Authority and Local Resistance in Orange County, California

Introduction

Summary and Recommendations

Conclusion

Introdution

9: "There Goes the Neighborhood": Gentrification, Displacement, and Homelessness in Washington, D.C.

Summary and Recommendations

Conclusions

Conclusion

Epilogue: A Perilous Bridge

References

Index

Contributors

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