How to Think about Homelessness: Balancing Structural and Individual Causes

Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 41-54

  Main, Thomas ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Homelessness; Methodology; Social structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032331929     PISSN: 10530789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022966631533     Document Type: Article

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