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Sociology 498: Homelessness
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Rossi: Down and Out in America
Reading questions
Rossi's macro-micro distinction:
The vulnerability-enhancing factors I will consider here are personal
characteristics.
Although they may help explain who becomes hoemeless,
let me stress that fluctuations in homelessness as a social condition are
likely to be explained better by conditions in the larger society.
That is, the amount of homelessness is likely to be affected by the amount
of inexpensive housing available:
the less housing is available and the more expensive it is, the more people
are homeless.
But no matter what the availability of inexpensive housing,
personal characteristics are likely to explain
who becomes homeless.
Peter Rossi,
Down and Out in America,
page 143
See also our broader list of causes.
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