Recommended Reading – Homelessness

Do you have questions about homelessness? Like – why do people become homeless? how do people become homeless? once someone is homeless, will they always be homeless? are all homeless people the same – do they all have the same problems? can we actually end homelessness? Well, I am glad you asked! A person could spend their whole life studying these questions, but you don’t have to – lots of other people, smart people, did the work for you. Below is a list of articles, with links when we could find them, and books, and even some movies, that will help you understand homelessness. Not everybody agrees about the answers to the weighty questions we started out with, so, read with a critical mind. But, please do read. The world needs more people who are willing to look beyond the headline, the tidy soundbite, to truly wrestle with big questions and big problems.  Enjoy!

Housing first & the question of how to resolve chronic homelessness: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/20/a-plan-to-make-homelessness-history/

Who is hungry? http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/12/13/food.insecurity.holidays.middle.class/index.html

On the question of mental illness, incarceration & homelessness: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/released/?utm_campaign=homepage&utm_medium=proglist&utm_source=proglist

How homeless folks can remain members of the community: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-12-13-libraries13_ST_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip&POE=click-refer

What happens when people are reminded that homeless people aren’t necessarily crooks: http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?cl=23097576

Overcoming homelessness: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1315879/Homeless-Harvard-How-daughter-drug-addicts-defied-odds-Ivy-League-graduate.html

The link between income inequality, poverty & homelessness: http://www.slate.com/id/2267157/

Family homelessness is on the rise: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/us/12shelter.html?_r=2&hp

What the Federal government is doing about homelessness: http://www.ich.gov

The costs of emergency services for the homeless: http://www.gladwell.com/2006/2006_02_13_a_murray.html

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