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. 1995 Jul;65(3):330-3.
doi: 10.1037/h0085058.

Looking behind the numbers in counting the homeless: an invited commentary

R B Straw  1
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Looking behind the numbers in counting the homeless: an invited commentary

R B Straw. Am J Orthopsychiatry. 1995 Jul.

Abstract

Many of criticisms of the Census Bureau's S-Night count of the homeless advanced by Wright and Devine are appropriate. However, a more important issue--the lack of agreement in the field on an appropriate conceptual definition of homelessness--undermines their overall critique.

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