IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/anname/v501y1989i1p132-142.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Urban Homeless: a Portrait of Urban Dislocation

Author

Listed:
  • PETER H. ROSSI

    (Social and Demographic Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

  • JAMES D. WRIGHT

    (Department of Sociology at Tulane University)

Abstract

In this decade, homelessness has been recognized as a serious and growing urban social problem. Using a new research approach to the study of undomiciled urban populations, we describe the social, economic, and demographic characteristics of the literally homeless population in Chicago. The homeless in the Chicago sample are unaffiliated persons living in extreme poverty, with high levels of physical and mental disability. Homelessness is interpreted as a manifestation of extreme poverty among persons without families in housing markets with declining stocks of inexpensive dwelling units suitable for single persons.

Suggested Citation

  • Peter H. Rossi & James D. Wright, 1989. "The Urban Homeless: a Portrait of Urban Dislocation," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 501(1), pages 132-142, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:sae:anname:v:501:y:1989:i:1:p:132-142
    DOI: 10.1177/0002716289501001009
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0002716289501001009
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1177/0002716289501001009?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:anname:v:501:y:1989:i:1:p:132-142. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.