| Description |
1 online resource (268 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover Page; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; 1 In the Shadow of the Mouse: Central Florida as Myth, Metaphor, and Reality; Central Florida as Myth; Central Florida as Metaphor; Central Florida as Reality; The Plan of the Book; Notes; 2 Poverty in Central Florida: Work, Wages, and Well-being among Low and Moderate Income Families 1; Poverty Definitions, Rates, and Trends; Welfare Reform; The Low and Moderate Income Population of Central Florida; The Costs of Being Poor; Conclusions; Notes; 3 One Thousand Homeless Men; Context; Client Flow |
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Client DemographicsExperiences with Homelessness; Panhandling; Labor Force Participation; A Note on Homeless Veterans and Trends; Update 2009; Notes; 4 Transients and Frequent Flyers: Patterns of Shelter Utilization and Their Implications for Social Policy; Patterns of Shelter Utilization: The Culhane Studies; Prior Studies; Patterns of Shelter Utilization in Orlando; Policy Application; What is "Housing First"?; Notes; 5 It's Not Who We Are: Realities of Homelessness for Women and Children 1; Demographics of Homeless Women and Families; Child Separation; Histories of Homelessness |
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Violence, Domestic and OtherwiseThe Women of the WRCC; Conclusions; Notes; 6 Shelter Life: Risk or Respite?; The Men; Community; Crime; Disease; Violence; Substance Abuse; Motivation; The Women (and Fathers); Conclusion; Notes; 7 Lovely, Dark, and Deep: Central Florida's Woods People 1; Results; Focus Group Observations; Concluding Thoughts; Notes; 8 The Drunk, the Addicted, and the Just Plain Shiftless? 1; Twelve-Stepping; Results; Creative Adaptations?; Concluding Thoughts; Notes; 9 "No Place for Sissies": The Elderly Homeless 1; Definition of Elderly; Numbers |
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On Becoming Elderly and HomelessLives and Times of Older Homeless Persons in America; Stories from an Emergency Homeless Shelter; Homeless Stories from Miami; Elderly Poverty; The Lucky Ones; Concluding Thoughts; Notes; 10 Mean as a Snake, Crazy as a Shithouse Rat: Public Perceptions of the Homeless 1; Black-White Differences in Perceptions; Media Effects; The Rights of Homeless People; Update: The 2009 Orlando Area Survey; Conclusions; Notes; 11 The Kindness of Strangers: Volunteers, Volunteerism, and the Homeless; Survey Data on Volunteers; Notes |
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12 A Tale of Two Cities: Homeless Politics and Services in Miami and OrlandoMiami; Orlando; Conclusions: Miami and Orlando Compared; Notes; 13 What Have We Learned?; What Is to Be Done?; Notes; References; Index |
| Summary |
"A place like Orlando, Florida is not transformed from swampland to sprawling metropolis through Peter Pan-like flights of fancy, but through theme park expansions requiring developmental schemes that are tough minded and often worsen relationships between the wealthy and the poor. The homeless arrive with their own hopes and illusions, which are soon shattered. The rest of the local population makes its peace with the system. Meanwhile the homeless are reduced to advocacy models that neither middle- nor working-class folks much worry about. They are modern members of Ellison's "invisible men" but they comprise a racial and social mixture unlike any other in the American landscape. This book is primarily about the dark side of this portrait?the poor, near-poor, homeless, and dispossessed who live in the midst of this verdant landscape. The phrase "down and out," has been used to describe people who are destitute or penniless since the late nineteenth century. Here the term is used in a more expansive sense, as synonymous with anyone who lives near, at, or over the edge of financial catastrophe."--Provided by publisher |
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Print version record |
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Poverty -- Florida
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Homelessness -- Florida
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Economic history
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Homelessness
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Poverty
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Florida -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
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Florida -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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| Subject |
Florida
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351498036 |
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1351498037 |
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