New homeless and old : community and the skid row hotel /

New homeless and old : community and the skid row hotel /

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Author / Creator:Hoch, Charles, 1948-
Imprint:Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1989.
Description:ix, 299 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Conflicts in urban and regional development
Subject:
Urban poor -- United States.
Single-room occupancy hotels -- United States.
Homelessness -- United States
Homelessness.
Single-room occupancy hotels.
Urban poor.
United States.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/959155
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Other authors / contributors:Slayton, Robert A.
ISBN:0877226008 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 267-290.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. A New Kind of Housing: Middle-Class Transients and the Industrial City
  • 3. The Lodging House: Shelter for the Working
  • 4. Scientific Welfare: the Rise of the Public Sector in Housing
  • 5. Skid Row: Poverty Versus Pathology
  • 6. Skid Row: Social Theory and Physical Destruction
  • 7. The Sro Hotel Way of Life
  • 8. The Sro Hotel: an Urban Outpost
  • 9. The Loss of Sro Hotels
  • 10. The "New" Homeless and the Skid Row Stereotype
  • 11. The Limits of Shelterization
  • 12. Revising Policies for the Homeless
  • Appendix A. Research Method
  • Appendix B. Index of Heterogeneity for Select Variables, by Hotel
  • Appendix C. Defining Social Life in the Sro Hotekts
  • Notes
  • Index

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