1. Homelessness Today
They were severely mentally ill, for instance, or end-of-the-line substance abusers-people incapable of caring for themselves, unable to keep themselves housed, and newly visible because of drastic changes in policies that had previously kept them institutionalized in hospitals or jails. ... There seems to be an economic path to homelessness, through rent hikes beyond incomes, unemployment, low wages, or some combination thereof (Loveland 241) The electoral emergence of the New Right in the 1980s under the governments of Margaret Thatcher in Great Britain and Ronald Reagan in the United Stat...
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