Homelessness Issues Reading Suggestions

Are you interested in learning more about homelessness, poverty, or other issues that our program is involved in? Check out the following books! The Partnership to End Homelessness owns all of these and we're happy to let you borrow them.

1. “Address Unknown: The Homeless in America,” James Wright

 

2. “A Framework for Understanding Poverty,” Ruby Payne

3. “Breakfast at Sally’s: One Man’s Inspirational Journey,” Richard LeMieux

4. “Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir,” Janice Erlbaum

5. "How to Increase Homelessness: Real Solutions to the Absurdity of Homelessness in America,” Joel John Roberts

6. “Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting By in America,” Barbara Ehrenreich

8. “Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together,” Ron Hall and Denver Moore

9. “Street Crazy: America's Mental Health Tragedy,” Dr. Stephen B. Seager

10. "Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women,” Elliot Liebow

11. "The Glass Castle,” Jeanette Walls

12. “The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music,” Steve Lopez

 

13. “Why Don’t They Just Get a Job? One Couple’s Mission to End Poverty in Their Community,” Liane Phillips and Echo Montgomery Garrett

- Posted by Julie