What is the point? -- Meet Jack: a redemption story -- Hope on the run -- A brief on recent changes to homeless services -- Mather community campus: the vision and the early years -- Change in the wind: federal mandates -- The roots of disruptive change -- Comparing the new service models with...

"This book examines the history, governmental and private responses, and future prospects of this intractable challenge. Stephen Eides explains why homelessness persists in America and offers concrete recommendations for how we can do better for the homeless population."

"In wealthy nations such as Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, issues of poverty and homelessness have often been displaced or sidelined by the accelerating number of studies on income inequality and wealth disparity. In Poverty and Austerity amid Prosperity, Gregg M. Olsen...

General questions about poverty -- The causes of poverty -- Who are the poor? -- What are "welfare" and "social welfare?" -- Controversies over "welfare" -- Homelessness (and hunger) in the United States -- Coda -- Index -- About the author.