Sociology 498: Homelessness

Rossi on poverty and homelessness

• "[Homelessness] is misstated as a problem of being without shelter: homelessness is more properly viewed as the most aggravated state of a more prevalent problem, extreme poverty " Rossi, Down and Out in America , page 8.
• " It is a prime contention of this book that extreme poverty and homelessness are adjoining segments at the bottom of the American standard of living continuum." Rossi, Down and Out in America , page 10.

Rossi's survey data on poverty and homelessness

See also:

• Comparison with other surveys of income among the homeless
• Graphs of mean income data
• Graphs of median income data
• Rossi on on demographics (e.g. gender, age, marital status);
• Rossi on on mental health