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Homelessness in America |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Connaught C. Marshner |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1987 |
| Size: 2,119 Words, 12,753 Characters |
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THE DISPOSSESSED
George Grant
Westchester, III.: Crossway Books, 1986
283 pp., $8.95
Conservative and liberals argued last year over whether the health and Human Services (HHS) or the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) figures on the extent of homelessness were accurate: HUD said there are 250,000 to 350,00 homeless in the country; HHS said there are two to three million. George Grant maintains that both studies are correct because they measure different types of homeless (chronic or temporary). "The HHS study tells us that thousands upon thousands of Americans briefly hit rock bottom every year. But the HUD study tells us that only 250,000 to 350,000 never recover from that calamity."
Grant found out for himself what the calamity feels like.
The city-contra...
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...d by your Church is distinctively ecclesiastical and not simply a conservative private initiative program." Grant's premise is that the word of God changes lives and can be called upon to assist in changing the lives of the homeless. As a politically acceptable solution to the problem of homelessness, the weakness of Grant's approach is all too obvious, but his is a thought-provoking book.
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