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Volume 8, Issue 1 (1992) Special Issue on Homelessness: New England and Beyond


Today, much of public policy debate takes place in a social vacuum. This is partly because policy issues are often rather arbitrarily assigned to particular and seemingly unconnected disciplines that put a premium on maintaining their separate baronies of intellectual hegemony, and partly because of our own too-pervasive proclivity for compartmentalizing in order to simplify. One of the goals of the New England Journal of Public Policy is to invade, as it were, these baronies, to liberate the policy issues held hostage there and release them into a broader, more human context, one that accentuates the idea of connectedness as the hallmark of continuity in public affairs.

For this special issue, therefore, we have drawn on contributors from all quarters — from people who work with the homeless, human service advocates, social workers, mental health professionals, housing experts, the medical community, psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and "ologists" from many other fields. Some contributors do not agree with one another, and I have encouraged them to pursue their disagreements passionately, in the belief that the clash of opposing voices invigorates our thinking and makes us re-examine our own suppositions, that out of the hot crucible of debate emerges the distillation of ideas germane to finding new ways of looking at old dilemmas. But the emphasis throughout is on the homeless as human beings — we get behind the numbers and make the homeless a living part of the issue.

Hence the voices of the homeless themselves.

Front Matter

Editor's Note

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Editor's Note
Padraig O'Malley

Articles

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Foreword
Raymond L. Flynn

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Framing and Claiming the Homelessness Problem
David A. Rochefort and Roger W. Cobb

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On Dumpster Diving
Lars Eighner

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Question
Edward Baros

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The Housing Crisis Enters the 1990s
Peter Dreier and Richard Appelbaum

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Homelessness
A. E. S.

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Twin Peaks
Vince Putnam

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Diary
Susan M. Fowler

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The Kindred Bonds of Mentally Ill Homeless Persons
Richard C. Tessler, Gail M. Gamache, Peter H. Rossi, Anthony F. Lehman, and Howard H. Goldman

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Untitled
Kathie Boulanger

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Empowerment and the Transition to Housing for Homeless Mentally Ill People: An Anthropological Perspective
Norma C. Ware, Robert R. Desjarlais, Tara L. AvRuskin, Joshua Breslau, Byron J. Good, and Stephen M. Goldfinger

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Subgroups of the Homeless: Street Kids
Bruce Clary, James Harrod, and Rachel Olney

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My Life
Thomas Newman

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Circle
Dean Hamlin

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Anger
A. E. S.

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AIDS and the Homeless of Boston
James J. O'Connell and Joan Lebow

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Let Them Have Housing
Wendy Quinones

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Winter
Edward Baros

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Winds Curse
Robert Pavel

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Aggressive Outreach to Homeless Mentally Ill People
Ellen Nasper, Melissa Curry, and Elizabeth Omara-Otunnu

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The Story of My Life
Betty Reynolds

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In Search of Safety: Double Jeopardy for Battered Women
Pamela H. Zappardino and Deborah DeBare

Book Review

Back Matter

Editors

Editor
Padraig O'Malley
Book Reviews
Shaun O'Connell
Design Coordinator
Candace Chick
Copy Editor
Geraldine C. Morse