ABSTRACT
As suggested in the previous chapter, the terms of debate surrounding the McKinney Act over the issue of homelessness were usually limited to one of three general views about the homeless. However, when discussion of homelessness is carefully analyzed, we find that some opponents and advo cates of federal aid to the homeless made arguments grounded in more than one of these three views. Furthermore, at times the tone of the debate and the moral indignation that some debate participants expressed suggest that more was at stake than merely the allocation of federal money for homeless relief.
