Description:
The author explains that prevention is needed to help solve the homeless problem, not to just alleviate it. Issues examined include: cost-effectiveness and targeting those most at risk; preventing homelessness at the sources; keeping people in shared housing; assisting those displaced from condemned or destroyed buildings; transition assistance; prevention strategies for institutional releases; discharges from mental hospitals; and emancipation from foster care. The interventions discussed in this chapter offer a variety of community-based approaches that could be put to use to immediately to prevent people from becoming homeless. The author contends that in order to seriously eliminate homelessness as a significant national problem, a prevention-based strategy offers the most practical and promising way to proceed. [abstract]
Type of Resource:
Book
Publication Date:
1996
Location:
St. Louis