ABSTRACT
The current period of homelessness in the United States dates back to approximately 1979 and 1980 when advocates, reporters, social workers, and others began to notice a significant number of people with no place to live in. Despite many thousands of articles in our newspapers, stories on television, and discussions and websites on the Internet, aspects of this issue still remain almost uncommented on. One important silence in most of the literature about homelessness is race.
