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Peer reviewedRobertson, Michael Owen – Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, 1991
Examines professional and nonprofessional service providers to the homeless and their influence on local policymaking. Because professionals must supply precise information to government funding programs, they are more influential in interpreting homelessness to the public, yet promote a false sense of control over the situation by reducing the…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Federal Programs, Hermeneutics, Homeless People
