The Homeless

Christopher Jencks

  • 1994 Winner of the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award of the Association of American Publishers, Sociology and Anthropology Category

The Numbers

1. Counting the Homeless

2. Estimating the Increase

Promising Explanations

3. Emptying the Back Wards

4. The Crock Epidemic

S. Jobs and Marriage

6. The Destruction of Skid Row

Less-Promising Explanations

7. Social Skills and Family Ties

8. Changes in the Housing Market

9. Budget Cuts and Rent Control

Reversing the Trend

10. Do Shelters Cause Homelessness?

11. Some Partial Solutions

Appendix 1: Derivation of Tables 1 and 2

Appendix 2: Supplementary Tables

Notes

  • Cover: The Homeless

Christopher Jencks is John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Urban Affairs at Northwestern University.