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Abbott, Berenice, 23, 25 affiliation of homeless. See anomie African Americans, 10, 27, 30, 39–41, 56, 67, 76, 98, 127, 151–52, 176, 184, 186–89, 216; women, 36, 40, 170 Alabama House, 125 alcohol, 4, 6, 14–16, 43, 65, 69, 73, 88, 89, 98, 100–115, 127, 129, 133, 135, 145, 148, 152–55, 157, 163, 172, 174, 175–76, 187, 197, 217, 221 Alcoholics Anonymous, 105–7, 110–11, 170 All-Night Mission, 19, 26, 42 American Federation of Labor, 117, 125 Anderson, Nels, 31 (fig.), 36, 105, 107, 150–51 Andrews House, 125 Ann Arbor, Michigan, 50 anomie, 148, 151–58, 161–63, 166, 169–72, 178, 221 anti-homeless ordinances, 6, 188, 213–14, 220. See also intoxication ordinances; panhandling; vagrancy ordinances Arcade Hotel, 24 Arizona, 64, 76, 158 Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor (AICP), 46, 48 Atlanta, 52, 213 Bahr, Howard M., 120, 147, 149, 151–55, 157, 161–62, 178 Baltimore, 119 Barrett, Nicole, 215 Baxter, Ellen. See Kim Hopper Bloomberg, Michael, 216 Bogue, Donald, 147, 151, 153, 157, 169 Boston, 111, 117, 119, 122, 127, 191, 214 Bowery Mission, 19 (fig.), 24, 26, 41, 54, 98, 105, 130, 148, 158, 176, 190, 218 (fig.), 219 Bowery Savings Bank, 24 breadlines, 12, 14, 19, 20, 30, 35, 36, 45–49, 51, 53, 56, 70, 75, 83, 85 Bridge House, 109, 145 Bronx, 27, 109, 112, 125, 214 Brooklyn, 17, 27, 55, 148, 176, 192–93, 202 Brown, Joyce, 210–12 Brown v. Board of Education, 175 Buffalo, 111, 119 California, 64, 85, 134, 158, 181–82, 188, 220 Callahan v. Carey, 11, 191, 192, 202 Camp LaGuardia, 92–93, 111, 113–14, 129, 145, 148, 156, 158, 159–61, 165–66, 169, 170, 171, 176, 192, 194 Caplow, Theodore, 139, 147, 151–53, 156– 57, 161–62, 171, 173, 177–78 Carey, Hugh, 183, 191, 202 Catholic charities, 28, 48, 59, 190. See also Catholic Worker I N D E X 270 Index Catholic Worker movement, 82–84, 88, 190 CBGB, 197–99 Central Park, 56, 57 (fig.), 139, 187, 214 Charity Organization Society, 12, 39, 48, 81, 85, 150, 195, 215 Chatham Square, 1, 26 Chicago, 14, 15, 57–58, 71, 74, 99, 107, 115, 119, 121, 122, 147, 150, 157, 158, 169, 213 Children’s Aid Society, 27, 30 Cincinnati, 119, 127, 213 City of New York v. Miln, 133 City Planning Commission, New York, 116, 125, 127, 129, 130 Civil Works Administration (CWA), 73, 81 Civilian Conservation Corps, 63, 68, 71 Cleveland, 56, 119 Coalition for the Homeless, 201–2, 205, 213 cocaine, 179, 186, 206, 211 Colorado, 64 Columbia University Bureau of Applied Social Research, 146–50, 151, 153–74, 178. See also Bahr; Caplow; Operation Bowery Columbus Circle, 213 Communism, 41, 48, 52–53, 77, 89, 95–97, 99, 100, 114, 149 Coney Island, 17 Cooper Square, 1, 125–31, 133 Cooper Square Committee, 128–31, 133 Cuomo, Mario, 214 Daily News, 43 Daily Worker, 49, 82, 96 Dakota Hotel, 164 Day, Dorothy. See Catholic Worker Delevan Hotel, 190 demographics of homeless, 11, 30–31, 33–34, 36, 56–57, 62, 65, 67, 74–75, 78, 86–87, 90–92, 120, 147, 163–64, 186–87, 192, 207–8. See also African Americans; families; women; youth Department of Welfare, New York City, 9, 39–40, 73, 90, 92–100, 104, 109, 111–13, 129, 145, 157, 200 Detroit, 50, 107, 111, 119, 122 Dinkins, David, 213, 214 District of Columbia v. Hunt, 134 Doyers Street Mission, 19 Driver v. Hinnant, 135 drug use, 4, 6, 8, 69, 73, 86, 91, 100, 104, 135, 172, 174, 178, 184, 186–87, 189, 202, 206–8, 221–22. See also cocaine Durkheim, Emile, 151. See also anomie Easter v. District of Columbia, 135 families, 9, 11, 19, 47, 57, 67, 72, 75, 83–84, 94–100, 175, 209, 214, 216, 220 Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), 63–64, 78, 84 Federal Transient Program (FTP), 63–81, 84–87, 221 Fenster v. Leary, 134 Florida, 65, 85, 158 Flushing armory, 194, 202, 214 Fulton Hotel, 219 Georgia, 65 Gideon v. Wainwright, 136 Giuliani, Rudolph, 214–15, 216 Glendon Hotel, 26 Goldstein, Andrew, 215 Gramercy Park, 141 Grand Central Station, 179, 189, 214 Grand Hotel, 219 Grand Rapids, Michigan, 98 The Grapes of Wrath, 67 Great Depression, 29–87, 114, 134, 160, 179–80, 186, 205 Greater New York Gospel Mission, 35, 54 Hadley Rescue Hall, 2 (fig.), 19...

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