Beside the Golden Door: Policy, Politics, and the Homeless Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	The Homeless: What Are the Issues? What Are the Controversies?	1
2	Counting the Homeless	31
3	Why the Homeless Can't Be Counted	53
4	Poverty, Housing, and Homelessness	65
5	Families and Family Estrangement	93
6	Mental Illness and Substance Abuse	105
7	Why Alcohol and Drug Treatment Is Not the Solution	127
8	Health and Health Status	147
9	Outside American Cities: Rural and European Homelessness	177
10	Street Children in North and Latin America	195
11	Homelessness in the Twenty-First Century	209
	References	217
	Index	233