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Title Housing risks and homelessness among the urban elderly / Sharon M. Keigher, editor
Published New York : Haworth Press, [1991]
©1991

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Description xviii, 156 pages ; 23 cm
Series Journal of housing for the elderly ; volume 8, number 1, 1991
Journal of housing for the elderly ; v. 8, no. 1
Contents (cont.) The effects of a shrinking housing resource on older communities in Chicago / Sharon M. Keigher -- How SRO hotels meet the needs of older Chicagoans / Sharon M. Keigher, Rebecca Hanson Berman -- The human cost. The needs of older persons at risk of housing loss : some conclusions and recommendations / Sharon M. Keigher, Rebecca Hanson Berman, Sadelle T. Greenblatt -- Methodological notes on the Chicago study / Sharon M. Keigher, Rebecca Hanson Berman
The growth and significance of housing problems among older urban Americans / Sharon M. Keigher -- A national crisis. Growing housing hardship among the elderly / Sharon M. Keigher with Faith Pratt -- Overview of the Chicago study of elderly persons at housing risk / Sharon M. Keigher, Rebecca Hanson Berman, Sadelle T. Greenblatt -- The homeless and near-homeless elderly and how they cope. Older emergency service clients and SRO residents : characteristics, problems and needs / Sharon M. Keigher, Sadelle T. Greenblatt -- Racial differences regarding shelter and housing in a sample of urban elderly homeless / Richard L. Douglass, Benjamin J. Hodgkins -- The emergency service clients : coping with threats to and loss of "home" / Rebecca Hanson Berman, Sharon M. Keigher -- SRO hotels : a disappearing resource. No room in the inn : the disappearance of SRO housing in the United States / Beverly Ovrebo, Meredith Minkler, Petra Liljestrand
Notes "Has also been published as the Journal of housing for the elderly, volume 8, number 1, 1991"--T.p. verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Elderly poor -- Housing -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Case studies.
Elderly poor -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions -- Case studies.
Shelters for the homeless -- United States.
Older homeless persons -- Housing -- United States.
Older people -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions -- Case studies.
Older people -- Housing -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Case studies.
Urban poor -- Housing -- United States.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Author Keigher, Sharon Marie, 1947-
LC no. 91022606
ISBN 1560241659 (acid-free paper)