Down and out in Los Angeles and Berlin : the sociospatial exclusion of homeless people / Jürgen von Mahs.

Los Angeles, California, and Berlin, Germany, have been dubbed ""homeless capitals"" for having the largest homeless populations of their respective countries. In Down and Out in Los Angeles and Berlin, Jürgen von Mahs provides an illuminating comparative analysis of the impact...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Von Mahs, Jürgen, 1967-
Other title:Sociospatial exclusion of homeless people.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2013.
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Summary:Los Angeles, California, and Berlin, Germany, have been dubbed ""homeless capitals"" for having the largest homeless populations of their respective countries. In Down and Out in Los Angeles and Berlin, Jürgen von Mahs provides an illuminating comparative analysis of the impact of social welfare policy on homelessness in these cities. He addresses the opportunity of people to overcome--or ""exit""--homelessness and shows how Berlin, with its considerable social and economic investment for assisting its homeless has been as unsuccessful as Los Angeles.Drawing on fascinating.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvi, 191 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-182) and index.
ISBN:9781439908280
1439908281
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.