How “Deserving” Are the Most Vulnerable Homeless?
Department
Social Work and Human Services
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-2007
Abstract
These thoughts on poverty relate to the strengths and needs of shelter programs that lead people who are homeless to self-sufficiency. Demographic data from 4,000 homeless shelter guests over a 4-year period gave evidence that the shelter was an important part of a suburban social service delivery system. It met the short-term needs of many who were homeless. The irony is that the same program developed to help homeless individuals attain self-sufficiency appears to set up many of the most vulnerable to fail, specifically mothers and their children and those addicted to alcohol and drugs.
Journal Title
Journal of Poverty
Journal ISSN
1087-5549
Volume
11
Issue
1
First Page
135
Last Page
141
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1300/J134v11n01_06
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