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Peer reviewedStoner, Madeleine R. – Urban and Social Change Review, 1984
Discusses demographic characteristics of the homeless and considers the causes of homelessness. Reviews programs, services, and recent federal and local government attempts to solve this problem. Calls for a comprehensive service system for the homeless, which would include emergency shelter and crisis intervention, transitional community…
Descriptors: Government Role, Housing Needs, Private Agencies, Program Effectiveness
Peer reviewedSloss, Michael – Urban and Social Change Review, 1984
The major problem in addressing urban homelessness lies in integrating the efforts to eliminate its structural causes and in drawing the lines of responsibility between government, private welfare groups and individuals for the shelter and rehabilitative needs of homeless people. (Author)
Descriptors: Government Role, Housing Needs, Private Agencies, Public Agencies
Peer reviewedHope, Marjorie; Young, James – Urban and Social Change Review, 1984
The current non-system for dealing with the mentally disabled is expensive and inefficient and is the primary cause of a substantial proportion of all homelessness. A comprehensive national policy and the delegation of greater administrative responsibilities to private agencies would help to address the problem of the homeless mentally ill. (GC)
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Federal Government, Government Role, Housing Needs
