History of Poverty and Homelessness in the USA

History of Poverty and Homelessness in NYC

• The Institute of Children, Poverty, and Homelessness presents timelines, maps, stories, and articles exploring the historical experience of family poverty and homelessness, and society's response to it.

Papers

• Homelessness Past and Present: The Case of the United States, 1890-1924 (New England Journal of Public Policy)
• Homelessness in Colonial America (blog post)
• The History of Homelessness in America 1640s to Present ( Robert Fischer)
• U.S. History in Context: Poverty (Gale)
• Poverty in America
• The History of the Official Poverty Measure (U.S. Census Bureau)
• The Causes of Homelessness in America (Stanford University)

Books

• Down and Out, on the Road: The Homeless in American History (Kenneth L. Kusmer)
• The Poor Among Us: A History of Family Poverty and Homelessness in New York City (Nunez & Scribnick)

Articles

• The Worst Thing Bill Clinton Has Done (Atlantic Magazine, 1997)
• The End of Welfare as We Know It (Atlantic Magazine, April 2016)​
• 20 Years Since Welfare 'Reform'  (Atlantic Magazine, August 2016)​
• The 'Welfare Queen' is a Lie (Atlantic Magazine, Sept 2016)