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Popular conceptions of homeless persons are often vivid, usually poignant, but rarely adequate. An outstretched hand at a subway entrance, an elderly woman pushing an overloaded cart, a bottle gang of disheveled alcoholics, a young family despairing in a motel room—all are images that represent part of the homelessness problem, but none captures fully the experiences or feelings of those who become homeless.
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Schutt, R.K., Garrett, G.R. (1992). Responding to Homelessness. In: Responding to the Homeless. Topics in Social Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1013-4_9
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