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Author : Emma Louise Barnes Griswold
Release : 1987
Genre : Housing
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Book Synopsis Single Room Occupancy Hotels as a Partial Solution to the Issue of Homelessness by : Emma Louise Barnes Griswold
Download or read book Single Room Occupancy Hotels as a Partial Solution to the Issue of Homelessness written by Emma Louise Barnes Griswold. This book was released on 1987. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simha Rosenberg
Release : 1985
Genre : Gentrification
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Book Synopsis Single Room Occupancy Hotels by : Simha Rosenberg
Download or read book Single Room Occupancy Hotels written by Simha Rosenberg. This book was released on 1985. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Hoch
Release : 1990-04
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis New Homeless and Old by : Charles Hoch
Download or read book New Homeless and Old written by Charles Hoch. This book was released on 1990-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blending detailed historical perspective with contemporary survey research, Charles Hoch and Robert Slayton argue that the answers to one of the most pressing problems of our time come from the poor themselves. Their examination of the Skid Row single room occupancy hotel (SRO) reveals how communities formed by low-income single-person households have for decades offered the security, personal autonomy, and privacy for the "old" homeless that the "new" homeless lack. And they show how public urban renewal efforts, which destroyed the bulk of these hotels with the intent to rid the inner city of the Skid Row homeless, actually laid the foundation for today's urban homeless crisis. Focusing on Chicago from 1870 to the present, but including case studies in other cities, Hoch and Slayton analyze how these SRO hotels operated in the past and claim that the term "flop house" really described a wide range of shelter types available to the poor according to their economic conditions. Based on their research, the authors conclude that policies for solving the homeless problem should focus mainly not on the homeless people, but on the institutional actors who benefit directly and indirectly from their predicament. This means changing public policies that encourage the destruction of affordable housing, especially SRO hotels, and implementing preservation, rehabilitation, and new construction policies instead. Author note: Charles Hoch is Associate Professor in the School of Urban Planning and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Robert A. Slayton is Assistant Professor of History at Chapman College and author of Back of the Yards: The Making of a Local Democracy.
Author : Sharon Marie Keigher
Release : 1991
Genre : Aged
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Book Synopsis Housing Risks and Homelessness Among the Urban Elderly by : Sharon Marie Keigher
Download or read book Housing Risks and Homelessness Among the Urban Elderly written by Sharon Marie Keigher. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book presents the latest research on homelessness among the urban elderly based on a comprehensive study of older people from a city emergency service agency in Chicago. Interviews with these elderly clients are analyzed to show how housing-related problems and substandard residential conditions lead to homelessness, institutionalization, and even death. In this timely volume, a variety of living situations that can lead to homelessness are examined, including those persons in need of temporary shelter, those living in deplorable housing conditions, those living in SROs (single room occupancy hotels), those who have always been homeless, and those who have never been without shelter but are without a permanent residence. Areas of risk for homelessness among the urban elderly are identified by statistical comparisons illustrated with specific case descriptions. Practical urban housing options providing professionals with solutions to housing problems are evaluated, in particular the more extensive use of SROs as a successful housing alternative for urban elderly. Issues of concern to policymakers and practitioners serving the elderly and the mentally ill, such as urban planners, outreach agencies, protective services, and other programs concerned with housing, will benefit from this vital research. Housing Risks and Homelessness Among the Urban Elderly ties together urban social policy with the resulting human consequences, creating an invaluable resource for researchers and academics, service planners, social administrators and community care officials. Filling a void in the current research literature, this informative volume explores avenues whereby elders lose their homes in the community, identifies circumstances surrounding their use of shelters for the homeless, and recognizes the range of social supports and services that preclude homelessness, all in order that homelessness among the urban elderly might be decreased and prevented.
Author : Monica Hay
Release : 1993
Genre : Homeless persons
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Book Synopsis Housing the Homeless by : Monica Hay
Download or read book Housing the Homeless written by Monica Hay. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Portland Hotel project, located in the inner city neighbourhood of the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, was undertaken by the Downtown Eastside Residents Association (DERA) to add to the existing single room occupancy (SRO) housing stock. Hastily and poorly renovated by its owners, the hotel sat vacant for nearly two years. DERA saw an opportunity to return these units to the affordable housing stock and believed that a community-operated non-profit hotel provided a better alternative to the privately operated SRO stock. This report documents the efforts of DERA to provide secure, affordable housing for hard-to-house homeless persons living in the Downtown Eastside district of Vancouver. The report is divided into two parts. The first section describes the management agreement struck between the owners of the hotel and DERA. It also describes the various problems encountered with the upgrading and renovation of the hotel. Part II discusses the daily operation and management of the project, the range of services available to tenants, the needs and demands of the residents of the Portland Hotel, sources of funding, and staffing practices. Case studies of several tenants are also presented.
