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Despite an overhaul in the 1990s, the American welfare system remains with a business model focused on the bottom line. Crafted by male-dominated legislative bodies whose members most likely never had to choose between paying the rent or feeding their kids, established policies primarily protect the popular programs that ensure politicians' re-election. This book offers a feminist perspective on the 21st century attitude toward poverty, illustrated by the words of women forced to live every day with social policies they had no voice in developing. Topics include the struggles of daily life, cr

A symposium introduction describes the dimension of the problem of homelessness & its causes. Government agencies that administer homeless assistance & six major recommendations developed by the Federal Interagency Task Force are delineated. Most homeless assistance comes from general welfare initiatives or through domestic violence intervention programs. As homelessness has been publicly recognized for decades, social programs concerning homelessness have been developed. The issue before the social science community concerns the role of its research in configuring public policy. 12 References. E. Sanchez

The difficulties surrounding research on homelessness are numerous and substantial. Using a statewide census of homelessness, this article analyzes and critiques common methodological techniques employed in that study. In addition, using cross-tabulation and loglinear modeling, the relationship between key demographic variables and the cited primary cause of homelessness, as well as the types of housing needed, are assessed. Through a multiphased process, which isolates the effects of the operationalized definition of homelessness, significant changes emerge. The operational definition of homelessness is found to affect the demographic composition of the sample, the estimation of annual incidents of homelessness, and the estimation of the statewide number of homeless individuals. The impact of the uncertainty surrounding research on homelessness on policy formation is addressed.

Using findings from a federally mandated statewide study of homelessness in the state of Iowa, this paper presents methodologies developed to address various aspects of homeless research, including enumeration of the population, screening for reporting duplications, estimating the annual number of incidents of homelessness, & exploring county-level estimates of homelessness. After implementing an algorithm to eliminate duplicate reporting, & using the baseline unduplicated reported number of homeless persons, a statewide estimate of the number of homeless individuals was derived. Following further adjustments for differences in agency reporting practices & after extrapolating for nonreported time periods, we estimated the number of unique incidents of homelessness experienced in the state during the year of the study (1997). The policy implications of these findings are discussed. 4 Tables, 1 Figure, 27 References. Adapted from the source document.