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Can I read Beside the Golden Door: Policy, Politics, and the Homeless (Social Institutions and Social Change) on EtoBox?
Beside the Golden Door: Policy, Politics, and the Homeless (Social Institutions and Social Change) by James D. Wright, Beth A. Rubin, and Joel A. Devine is a politics available to read on EtoBox.
What is Beside the Golden Door: Policy, Politics, and the Homeless (Social Institutions and Social Change) about?
Written for the general public as well as for specialists, this volume details some of the numerous dimensions of the homelessness issue: the rise in poverty; the decline of low-income housing: problems in counting the homeless; the role of familial estrangement; mental illness; substance abuse; and health status and behaviors. The authors conclude with discussions of rural versus urban homelessness, street children in Latin America, and homelessness in postindustrial societies.
Who reads Beside the Golden Door: Policy, Politics, and the Homeless (Social Institutions and Social Change)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- James D. Wright, Beth A. Rubin, and Joel A. Devine
- Publisher
- Aldine Transaction
- Published
- 1998
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780202306131
- Category
- politics
- Subjects
- Social Science, Political Science, Social_sciences
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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