Homeless problems in Taiwan: Looking beyond legality toward social issues

City, Culture and Society

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 165-173

  Cheng, Li Chen ^a   Yang, Yun Sheng ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Taipei Homeless Assistance Network   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Assistance activities; Homelessness; NGO; Street people; Taipei City Government; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649772552     PISSN: 18779166     EISSN: 18779174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2010.10.005     Document Type: Article

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