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The purpose of this chapter is to: conceptualize the homeless as a population and discuss population prevalence; detail rates of substance use and abuse, other mental illness and medical risk factors, and comorbidities; and identify service models that have been demonstrated to be effective. Operational definitions of homelessness have focused either on individuals who are literally homeless or on...
Scientists, businesses executives, and political campaigners are not the only ones who can turn to testing and data to become more effective at reaching their goals. Those of us who want to make the world a better place can do so, too. Most care designed to address some problem: reduce poverty, prevent domestic abuse, end environmental destruction, stop human trafficking, and so forth. Some of the...
This chapter shows how the impulse for stability and rootedness issues from a sense of homelessness, while the tolerance for ambiguity and multiple meanings was enabled by a feeling of being “at home in the world,” an ability to occupy two positions at once. In the early decades of the twentieth century, modernity, and its associated dynamic of modernization, were commonly linked to the homeless condition...
Emergence is the phenomenon of collective intelligence exhibited by a population of independent agents (the swarm). The theory of emergence has become a useful framework for exploring salient features of dynamical systems. This framework provides insight into hitherto intractable problems in sociology and economics. One such problem is the definition of a mathematical model of homelessness that enables...
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