TY - JOUR
AU - Bahr, Howard, M.
AB - Abstract Annual enumerations of the Bowery, Manhattan's skid-row area, have shown a consistent decline in population. Inquiries were sent to commissioners of welfare in forty United States cities to determine if the declining skid-row population is a local or a national phenomenon. Results indicate that in most cities the skid-row population is declining. Apparently, this decline is not due to a decrease in the absolute size of the homeless population, but rather to several factors which have operated to disperse homeless men from the traditional skid row to other parts of the city. This content is only available as a PDF. Author notes * This article may be identified as publication No. A-480 of the Bureau of Applied Social Research, Columbia University. It is part of a research program currently financed by a grant (MH-10861) from the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Public Health Service. I am greatly indebted to Theodore Caplow for general guidance and editorial assistance. The research assistance of Richard Riday and Barbara Luise Margolies is gratefully acknowledged. Also, Nan Markel Sigal and Stanley K. Henshaw read an earlier draft of this report and made helpful suggestions. © 1967 Society for the Study of Social Problems, Inc.
TI - The Gradual Disappearance of Skid Row
JF - Social Problems
DO - 10.2307/798868
DA - 1967-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-gradual-disappearance-of-skid-row-j9Sg0cdcgR
SP - 41
VL - 15
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
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