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Shelters
In its primary sense, shelter refers to any humanmade contrivance designed (or adapted) to provide protection from the elements. Across cultures, shelter varies markedly in material, durability, portability, and ownership. It also varies in occupancy; ...
- Causes
- Cities
- Demography and Characteristics
- Health Issues
- History
- Housing
- Legal Issues, Advocacy, and Policy
- Lifestyle Issues
- Appendix 3: Directory of Street Newspapers
- Child Care
- Child Support
- Criminal Activity and Policing
- Encampments, Urban
- Libraries: Issues in Serving the Homeless
- Mobility
- Panhandling
- Parenting
- Prostitution
- Shelters
- Single-Room Occupancy Hotels
- Social Support
- Soup Kitchens
- Street Newspapers
- Survival Strategies
- Work on the Streets
- Organizations
- American Bar Association Commission on Homelessness and Poverty
- Association of Gospel Rescue Missions
- Corporation for Supportive Housing
- European Network for Housing Research
- FEANTSA
- Goodwill Industries International
- Homeless International
- International Network of Street Newspapers
- International Union of Tenants
- National Alliance to End Homelessness
- National Center on Family Homelessness
- National Coalition for the Homeless
- National Resource Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness
- Salvation Army
- UN-HABITAT
- Urban Institute
- Wilder Research Center
- Perceptions of Homelessness
- Appendix 1: Bibliography of Autobiographical and Fictional Accounts of Homelessness
- Appendix 2: Filmography of American Narrative and Documentary Films on Homelessness
- Autobiography and Memoir, Contemporary Homelessness
- Images of Homelessness in Contemporary Documentary Film
- Images of Homelessness in Narrative Film, History of
- Images of Homelessness in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century America
- Images of Homelessness in the Media
- Literature, Hobo and Tramp
- Photography
- Public Opinion
- Populations
- Research
- Service Systems and Settings
- “Housing First” Approach
- Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)
- Case Management
- Children, Education of
- Continuum of Care
- Family Separations and Reunifications
- Food Programs
- Foster Care
- Harm Reduction
- Health Care
- Homeless Assistance Services and Networks
- Housing, Transitional
- Interventions, Clinical
- Interventions, Housing
- Mental Health System
- Outreach
- Poorhouses
- Safe Havens
- Self-Help Housing
- Service Integration
- Shelters
- Single-Room Occupancy Hotels
- Soup Kitchens
- Work on the Streets
- Workhouses
- World Perspectives and Issues
- Australia
- Bangladesh
- Brazil
- Calcutta
- Canada
- Copenhagen
- Cuba
- Denmark
- Egypt
- France
- Germany
- Homelessness, International Perspectives on
- Housing and Homelessness in Developing Nations
- Indonesia
- Italy
- Japan
- London
- Montreal
- Mumbai (Bombay)
- Nairobi
- Netherlands
- Nigeria
- Paris
- Russia
- South Africa
- Spain
- Sweden
- Sydney
- Tokyo
- Toronto
- United Kingdom
- United Kingdom, Rural
- Zimbabwe
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