Homelessness as a means of Gentrification and Social Inequality

By melanie34

  • THE CONSTRUCTION OF POVERTY AND HOMELESSNESS IN US CITIES

    Susser, I.
    Discusses how poverty is shaped by gender, race, political mobilization, and resistance and the ultimate effects leading to homelessness.

  • Safer Cities Initiative and the Removal of the Homeless: Reducing Crime or Promoting Gentrification on Los Angeles' Skid Row

    Vitale, Alex.
    Discusses how the "Safer Cities Initiative" in Los Angeles was intended to solve the homeless/crime issue on Skid Row, but ultimately was used as a means of gentrification and has made the living conditions for those on Skid Row much worse.

  • Youth Homelessness and Individualised Subjectivity

    Farrugia, David
    Explains that youth homelessness is caused by social injustice

  • Homelessness, Social Policy And Difference.

    Horsell, Chris.
    Social exlucsion has ultimately led to social injustice.

  • Parental Incarceration, Child Homelessness, and the Invisible Consequences of Mass Imprisonment

    Wildeman, Christopher.
    Discusses how mass imprisonment has led to child homelessness and the inevitable economic challenges that these children face (prodominately in the African American community).

  • "Racial Inequality After Racism."

    Harris, Fredrick C., and Robert C. Lieberman.
    Discusses racial inequality, for mostly African Americans, in a post-racial era.