HOMELESSNESS IN AMERICA

Homelessness in America: A Historical Timeline

Homelessness in America: A Historical Timeline

1980

1980 - The problems families face today are far more complex than they were in 1980? when we passed PL 96-272. Today? one out of every five children lives in poverty. Millions of children in the United States go to sleep hungry and without a safe place to live. (Bassuk? 2006? 781-806)

1982

Dec 15? 1982 - Homelessness in America ; hearing before the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development? Dec. 15? 1982.

1983

Jan 16? 1983 - IT'S COLD? it's snowy? and a woman is holed up in a tumbledown South Side building that lost its last paying tenant a long time ago. (Bassuk? 2006? 781-806) Boxes in a viaduct? a patch of carpet and a plastic sheet make up the shelter for Roosevelt Hunter? one of Chicago's many homeless.

1984

Dec 13? 1984 - "Between one-third and one-half of the homeless in America today suffer a severe mental handicap?" Heinz said in his opening remarks. "As many as one in five are over age 60. These are America's chronic homeless. . . . "If we don't establish a better-coordinated and integrated system ...

1985

Dec 9? 1985 - you contribute will go directly to fight hunger and homelessness in America. It's a chance to participate in the biggest gathering in our nation s ... Proceeds from Hands Across America will go towards the relief of hunger and homelessness in America. (Bassuk? 2006? 781-806) Your support is needed ... now. ...

1986

Apr 4? 1986 - The route for the human chain? planned to stretch cross-country May 25 to raise money for programs fighting hunger and homelessness in America? was announced yesterday by local organizers. (Booth? 2002? 429-452) If all goes according to the plan? an unbroken line of people at 3 pm that day will begin snaking.

May 23? 1986 - LOS; ANGELES? 21 May. More- man five are due to link bands across all but the harshest desert regions of the US for 1 5 minutes on Sunday? in the hope of raising million to combat hunger and homelessness in America. Organisers of Hands Across America the same people re —sponsible for ...

1987

Jan 1? 1987 - Some few disordered minds may seek misery? but the overwhelming majority of the millions of homeless in America - including an increasing number of families with children - long for the comforts of home and the pride of independence. Instead? they have been forced into the alleys of ...

Feb 9? 1987 - A debate exists among social scientists examining the causes and effects of homelessness in America. (Booth? 2002? 429-452) On one side are practitioners subscribing to the popular theory that a significant portion of the homeless population are mentally ill people released from institutions under the ...

1989

Jan 2? 1989 - "Homeless in America" is an exhibition of 64 black-and-white photographs that attempts to "break the stereotypical views of the homeless?" said Michael Evans? ... "Homeless in America?" financed by a grant from Triangle Industries Inc.? is ...