Homelessness, A System Perspective. The Journey of Community Solutions

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Abstract
In 1917, Edward Amherst Ott, a scholar at Drake University, offered a list of policy principles that he called “Hot Shots” in support of fighting a productive “War on Poverty”. Ott was optimistic that the world was sufficiently enlightened and capable, so that “Poverty […] can be eliminated. There is little joy to the imaginary mind in the enjoyment of abundance, while other people are in want.” Almost 50 years later, on 8 January 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced his own war on poverty to build a “Great Society” in his State of the Union Address . “Let this session of congress be known as the session which did more for civil rights than the last 100 sessions combined. […] As the session which declared all-out war on human poverty and unemployment in these United States.” And thus, the war on poverty should become “America’s longest war” , a war it is still fighting on many fronts, new and old, today.

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Date created [ca. March 2020 - June 2021]
Date modified September 28, 2022; September 28, 2022; August 27, 2021; November 3, 2022; November 3, 2022
Publication date September 28, 2022; August 26, 2021

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Author Seelos, Christian ORCiD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7539-7020 (unverified)

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Subject Social problems
Subject Built for Zero
Subject Housing First
Genre Text
Genre Report

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DOI https://doi.org/10.25740/sg156yw7438
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/sg156yw7438

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Seelos, C. (2021). Homelessness, A System Perspective. The Journey of Community Solutions. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at https://doi.org/10.25740/sg156yw7438

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cseelos@stanford.edu

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