Homelessness : New England and Beyond: a Special Issue of the New England Journal of Public Policy Book

	Editor's Note	7
	Foreword	21
	Homelessness: An Overview	25
	Framing and Claiming the Homelessness Problem	49
	Homelessness Past and Present: The Case of the United States, 1890-1925	67
	On Dumpster Diving	87
	Build Homes Not Bombs: Get a Better Economy to Boot!	97
	Question	128
	The Last Thing We Need Is Another Shelter	129
	The Housing Crisis Enters the 1990s	155
	Homelessness	168
	Shelter the American Way: Federal Urban Housing Policy, 1900-1980	169
	Streets Are for Nobody: Caroline	185
	Housing the Homeless Through Expanding Access to Existing Housing Subsidies	187
	Streets Are for Nobody: Pat Gomes	201
	The Housing Affordability Slide in Action: How Single Mothers Slip into Homelessness	203
	Twin Peaks	215
	Diary	217
	Victimization and Homelessness: Cause and Effect	229
	Classification and Its Risks: How Psychiatric Status Contributes to Homelessness Policy	247
	Indemnified in a January Soup Kitchen Line	264
	The Kindred Bonds of Mentally Ill Homeless Persons	265
	Housing, Community Support, and Homelessness: Emerging Policy in Mental Health Systems	281
	Untitled	296
	Empowerment and the Transition to Housing for Homeless Mentally Ill People: An Anthropological Perspective	297
	Program Design and Clinical Operation of Two National VA Initiatives for Homeless Mentally Ill Veterans	315
	Streets Are for Nobody: Awilda Cruz	339
	From Lemons to Lemonade: An Ethnographic Sketch of Late Twentieth-century Panhandling	341
	Homelessness, Alcohol, and Other Drug Abuse: Research Traditions and Policy Responses	353
	My Name Is Edward, I Am an Alcoholic	371
	Subgroups of the Homeless: Street Kids	373
	Triangulation in Monument Square	389
	Homeless Children Having Children	393
	Mentally Ill Persons in Emergency and Specialized Shelters: Satisfaction and Distress	407
	The McKinney Act: New England Responses to Federal Support for State and Local Assistance to the Homeless and Mentally Ill	419
	My Life	431
	Financing Mental Health Services for the Homeless Mentally Ill in New England	435
	Streets Are for Nobody: Margaret Mullins	453
	Homelessness in Massachusetts: Perception, Policy, and Progress	455
	State Government's Response to Homelessness: The Massachusetts Experience, 1983-1990	471
	Policy Shifts in the Massachusetts Response to Family Homelessness	483
	Circle	498
	Down and Out in Boston	499
	Making the Homeless Disappear: Redefining Homelessness in Massachusetts	511
	Anger	522
	Tents along the Merrimack: Homelessness and University-Community Cooperation	523
	Streets Are for Nobody: Marybeth	539
	AIDS and the Homeless of Boston	541
	Let Them Have Housing	557
	Winter	582
	The Grassroots Home: How Local Communities Are Fighting Homelessness	583
	Ending Homelessness among Mentally Disabled People	599
	Massachusetts at the Crossroads	613
	Streets Are for Nobody: Mary	621
	Private-Sector Funders: Their Role in Homelessness Projects	623
	Homelessness: The Politics of Accommodation	647
	A Visit to the Vet Hospital	668
	The New England Shelter for Homeless Veterans: A Unique Approach	669
	The Manufacture of Dependency: Shelterization Revisited	685
	A Single Man and Christmas	694
	Homelessness in Boston: The Media Wake Up	695
	The Needs of Hartford's Homeless Mentally Ill	703
	Winds Curse	714
	Aggressive Outreach to Homeless Mentally Ill People	715
	Streets Are for Nobody: Judy Silva	728
	Housing and Services for Homeless and At-Risk People: Newport's Experiment	729
	The Story of My Life	737
	Rural Homelessness in the Upper Valley	739
	In Search of Safety: Double Jeopardy for Battered Women	753
	The Pendulum Swings: How Changes in Federal and State Policy Have Affected the Status of Homeless People with Mental Illness in Ohio	761
	Counting the New York Homeless: An Ethnographic Perspective	771
	Streets Are for Nobody: Marie	792
	Two Nations: The Homeless in a Divided Land	793