Poverty & Homelessness

As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan making anything of her life. Poor is the extraordinary story - moving, funny, brave, and sometimes startling - of how Katriona turned her life around....

Crooked Smile details one man's journey that left him homeless on Skid Row, and what it took to escape a decade of addiction.

In this Very Short Introduction, Philip N. Jefferson explores how the answers to these questions lie in the social, political, economic, educational, and technological processes that impact all of us throughout our lives. The degree of vulnerability is all that differentiates us....

Colburn and Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States. In a departure from many analytical approaches, the authors shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area....

J. D. Vance erzählt die Geschichte seiner Familie - eine Geschichte vom gescheiterten Aufstieg und von der Resignation einer ganzen Bevölkerungsschicht...

The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known - and cautiously avoided - by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood....

A critically acclaimed #1 New York Times bestseller with more than one million copies in print and a major motion picture! Gritty with pain, betrayal, and brutality, this incredible true story also shines with an unexpected, life-changing love....

Christophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an "American society" - one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal....

Poverty is much more than simply a lack of material resources, and it takes much more than donations and handouts to solve it....

Even as climate change dominates the headlines, many of us still think about it in the future tense—we imagine that as global warming worsens over the coming decades, millions of people will scatter around the world, fleeing famine and rising seas.

From poverty and policing, homelessness and overrun prisons to Grenfell and hostile environments, Britain has long been failing those who need our help the most....

For 11 years, Danielle Steel took to the streets with a small team to help the homeless of San Francisco....

This landmark treatise by the great economist Henry George was first published in 1879. George's work became the seminal analysis of the political economy which inspired most, if not all, the prominent thinkers of the Progressive Movement....

An inspiring personal story of redemption, second chances, and the transformative power within us all, from the founder and CEO of the nonprofit charity: water....

¿El pobre es pobre porque quiere? ¿Los jóvenes son más flojos que antes y por eso ganan menos? ¿Quienes reciben programas sociales los gastan en tonterías? ¿Los estados del norte trabajan más que los del sur? ¿Tu jefe ya no te puede subir el sueldo?

Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children....

The motivating idea of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) is radically simple: give people cash and let them do whatever they want with it. This book provides the average citizen with all the information they need to understand current debates about the UBI....

While free markets have brought positive change, traditional capitalism cannot solve problems of inequality and poverty....

If you want to know how you can help create a better world, listen to this book....

With a view through an economic lens that has only become sharper and more focused since its initial publication in 1995, the premise owned by A Framework for Understanding Poverty is unchanged....

London Labour and the London Poor is a rare and fascinating insight into the lives and struggles of the 19th-century poor. Written by journalist and reformer Henry Mayhew, it collects hundreds of testimonials from the lower strata of Victorian society....

The Blue Sweater is the inspiring story of a woman who left a career in international banking to spend her life on a quest to understand global poverty....

Do you want to make a true difference in the world? Dr. Ron Sider does. He has, since before he first published Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger in 1978....

Ten years ago, Liyana Dhamirah was in a precarious situation: at 22, she was heavily pregnant and had no place to call home.

Bridges Out of Poverty is a unique and powerful tool designed specifically for social, health, and legal services professionals....