colburn

This book has a great title. It is such a good distillation of the book's message that I was tempted to just type, "Yep!" for my review and leave it at that. You see, there are many things that are blamed for the homelessness crisis in America. Mr. Colburn and Mr. Aldern have taken a look at each of them, crunched the numbers from available studies, and offered their findings. The puzzling thing is that the usual suspects in homelessness--addictions, mental health, rates of poverty--don't seem to cause an equal level of homelessness across the country. One by one, the authors whittle away the causes until they are left with the availability of affordable housing.

The book is definitely worth checking out if you're at all interested in homelessness. The book isn't so academic as to put you to sleep, but it does offer data to back up their opinions. As a worker in an emergency shelter, it gave me a better grasp of the overall system and some of what my guests and I are up against as we're trying to get them housed.
--J.… (més)