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Skid Row Culture and History
Skid row derives from “skid road,” the rough-and-tumble waterfront street in nineteenth-century Seattle where logs were skidded to the sawmills. Although it is now pejoratively associated with seedy mid-twentieth-century urban districts littered with drunken derelicts, ...
- 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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