Homeless Children Children and adolescents living without a permanent residence, with or without parent or guardian. Homeless children face a daunting range of problems. A 1992 U.S. Department of Education report, Serving Homeless Children, stated:...

The condition of being without any housing. This occurs because of insufficient income to pay the market rates for purchasing or renting a home or because of an insufficient housing supply Rent controls by reducing the supply of private sector housing...

For the Going Forth, as the Buddha went forth to find salvation for mankind, see Pabbajjā, the symbolic leaving the world by the Sāmanera or Novice. A layman who leaves home in this sense is called an Anāgārika...

Literal homelessness—lacking permanent housing of one's own—is a condition that has been present throughout human history. It has always been dangerous as well, given the necessity of shelter for survival. Nevertheless, the routine...

Homelessness is the condition and societal category of people who lack fixed housing, usually because they cannot afford a regular, safe, and adequate shelter. The term "homelessness" may also include people whose primary nighttime residence is in a...

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SOCIologist Christopher Jencks has always been an interesting, iconoclastic liberal. In the 1960s, he was the left's leading advocate for school choice, championing ideas very similar to those promoted 20 years later by John Chubb and Terry Moe. Over the past...

Homelessness is a pressing issue facing communities across our country. A recent article, "Mourning the homeless," (BDN, Dec.22) highlighted the plight of the homeless through moving personal accounts of individuals who are or were recently homeless in Greater Bangor. The story also told of...

When Brian Steik lived on the streets, the government spent tens of thousands of dollars on emergency room visits and other services to keep the alcoholic alive.Now social-service agencies are conducting an experiment: Offering Steik and dozens of other homeless drinkers subsidized apartments where they...

In response to a police crackdown on the homeless, a downtown church has opened its parking lot to homeless people, allowing as many as 150 of them to sleep on the pavement while a security guard keeps watch.The First Presbyterian Church started the practice after...

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“[Criminalizing homeless people] isn’t only inhumane and potentially unconstitutional, but it’s also senseless and ineffective.” —Maria Foscarinis, Christian Science Monitor, December 9, 1999 “Experience tells us...

Explores the causes and effects of homelessness. Questions who should be held responsible for the problem. Describes how the current system has created a subculture of the disenfranchised homeless which continues to be reinforced.