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Why the Homeless Have No Chance: An Inside Story

Why the Homeless Have No Chance: An Inside Story

Grunberg, Jeffrey

Paperback

General Political ScienceGeneral PsychologyGeneral Sociology

Publisher Price: $23.95

ISBN10: 1456635751
ISBN13: 9781456635756
Publisher: Ebookit Com
Published: Oct 30 2020
Pages: 340
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Comprising a number of short essays, Why the Homeless Have No Chance: An Inside Story documents a sociological journey through the homeless services industry and describes today's wrong-headed approach to this lingering social problem.


Told from the vantage point of thirty years of personal experience helping homeless people in a number of settings, these adventures largely took place in midtown Manhattan in the early 90's. Over a seventeen-year period, our singularly successful approach was dismantled slow-mo by way of political advocacy and media complicity. We had decried the housing approach, frustrated that it was going nowhere, instead calling for employment programming. However, what is referred to as The Board, the putative head of the homeless industry, would have none of it. We were accused of heinous crimes, all made up. For it all, even after those charges were proven to be fanciful, the damage had been done - we were taken down and our funding went right into the coffers of The Board, while the homeless, unemployed again, were back on the street.

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