“Stand Up and Be Counted”: The Politics of a Homeless Enumeration

Poverty and Public Policy

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1-27

  Williams, Jean Calterone ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

homeless enumeration; homeless policy; homelessness and poverty

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044805083     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19442858     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1944-2858.1172     Document Type: Article

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