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Download full textInstitute for Children and Poverty, New York, NY. – 2001
This report describes family homelessness in New York City, which has risen sharply since 1980. Currently, the City's family shelter system is at capacity. Homeless children are typically raised by single mothers who receive no child support, are 27 years old, are unemployed and receiving welfare, and have had at least one public assistance…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Child Health, Children, Elementary Secondary Education
Martinucci, Suzanne – Crisis, 1989
The incidence of racial violence and bias crime has increased dramatically in New York City in recent years, the result of a volatile mix of social, political, and economic factors. Worsening racial tensions can be traced to "hypersegregation" and polarization, poverty, homelessness, family breakdown, and failure of the education system.…
Descriptors: Black Community, Blacks, Community Problems, Homeless People
