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Homelessness Books & Ephemera
Addressing Senior Homelessness: housing solutions for San Francisco's hidden poor a report of Senior Action network May 2003
by Dunn, Timothy
San Francisco: Senior Action Network, 2003. 28p., 8.5x11 inches, photos, tables, figures, very good booklet in stapled pictorial wraps.
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$15.00
Ethsix* - Seeing the Un-Scene: Journalism, Social Work and Art of the Invisible City. volume one issue one
by Ekman, Eve and Sachi Fujimori, editors
[San Francisco]: Ethsix* / National Association of Social Workers, 2006. Paperback. 48p., 11x8.5 inches oblong, illustrations, color and b&w photos, poetry, social commentary, oral history, small stain on front corner, else very good condition in original pictorial wraps. High-level artwork by Bay Area social-workers; the title is explained as "*The sixth code of ethics (eth-six) from the National Association of Social Workers is the responsibility to advocate on behalf of socal justice." Frontis photo...
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$15.00
Homelessness A Message for Working Canadians (2003)
by Bognat Christopher
Thistle Printing. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1900. Paperback. Stapled wraps with scuffing to the covers, bright, clean interior. In very good + condtion. An insightlful look into the homelessness in Canada. ; Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 30 pages .
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$11.27
Green glasses
by King, Janice
San Francisco: Freedom Voices, 2000. 75p., trade-size wraps, King has inscribed to poet Ed Mycue, lower corner of entire book is somewhat bent owing to careless shelving; clean and otherwise sound, a good copy. She worked for years as secretary in the SF planning dept, many poems appears to have been generated by Tenderloin experiences or stories.
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$12.00
![Art From Unexpected Places: Hospitality House Community Arts Program [brochure]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/521/495/1279495521.0.b.jpg)
Art From Unexpected Places: Hospitality House Community Arts Program [brochure]
by Harrison, Bob, Rose Linda, Bill Whiting, Marco Paredes, Mohamed Abouamed, Ira Watkins, Adrian Paun & Dee Wheatley
San Francisco: Central City Hospitality House, 1987. 12 panel brochure folded to 4x9.25 inches, color reproductions of the 8 artist's works on heavy glossy stock. Arts program for homeless in the Tenderloin of San Francisco.
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$12.00
Fortune no.1
by Patrick, Dean
[Olympia, WA]: Nondescript Press, 2004. Pamphlet. [1], 11p., illustration, wraps. 8.5 x 5 in. Bottom corner slightly curled. Personal zine. The author records his experiences attempting to live a life of "beauty, truth, and love," per Rob Brezsny's bestowal of sainthood on all Free Will Astrology followers, while also living out of his car.
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$15.00
Where I slept being homeless in Portland
by Transition Projects
Portland, OR: Transition Projects, 2009. Paperback. Unpaginated, wraps, black stamp on front and rear wrap else very good condition, 8.5x8.5 inches. Photo essay on the homeless and where they sleep in Portland Oregon.
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$20.00
It Takes a Village": WHEEL Homeless Women's Forum 2000
[Seattle]: WHEEL (Women's Housing Equality and Enhancement League), 2000. Pamphlet. 46p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, illus., very good condition. Poetry by homeless and formerly homeless women.
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$15.00
Aminullah
by Mackinnon, Carrie, artist
n.pl: Active Distribution, 2020. Pamphlet. 44p., 8.25x11.75 inch pictorial wraps; second printing, as New.
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$12.00
National Lawyers Guild Laws for the People Convention, Schedule of Events, August 3-7, 2016 New York: registration packet, ten printed leaves, mostly unfastened and loose
by National Lawyers Guild
New York / San Francisco: host / applicant, 2016. Handbill. Subsections: the schedule of events and workshops, sketchily filled in with a blank covered with holograph notes - followed by earlier material (application, preferences, cost, payment record, travel directions; applicant a "presenter" hence some fees waived) - handbills announcing related events, and a sheet advising of FBI and DHS surveillance and infiltration techniques as attempts to control earlier movements such as Occupy Wall Street,...
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$20.00
Professional Lives, Personal Struggles: Ethics and Advocacy in Research on Homelessness
by Valado, Trenna and Randall Amster, editors
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012. Hardcover. xiii, 215p., pictorial boards,corners lightly bumped, else in very good condition. No dj, as issued.
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$60.00
How to House the Homeless
by Ellen, Ingrid Gould and Brendan O'Flaherty, editors
New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2010. Hardcover. x, 190p., very good first edition in like dj.
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$12.00
Blinking red lights and the souls of our friends
by Scatter, Sascha [Sascha Altman DuBrul]
Spring Glen, NY: the author, 2003. 9p., wraps, 8.5x5.5 inches, very good condition. A copy of this zine was incorporated into the collection "The worst: a compilation zine on grief and loss. Issue 1," compiled by Kathleen. Zine about life in a NY squatter community including anarcho-punks and urban gardeners; one member of the community dies. Scatter was a member of the ska-punk band Choking Victim.
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$18.00
Eyes Always Alive
by Valenza, Roberto
San Francisco: Pigweed press, 2002. Pamphlet. [16p] 5.5x8.5 inches, very good chapbook in sewn yellow wraps. Homelessness in San Francisco.
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$25.00
A Conversation on Organizing Models for Social Justice Struggles in the City
by Robinson, Betty, moderator, John Duda, introduction, Steve Meachem, Greg Rosenthal, et al
[Baltimore, MD]: Self-published, 2009. Pamphlet. [6p.], folded and nested, 5.5x8.5 inches; in very good condition. Selected reprint of pages 79-84. Participant Organizations: City Life/vida Urbana, Picture the Homeless, Take Back the Land, United Workers.
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$12.00
![Picture gentrification, picture racism; come discuss gentrification, why and how it happens, and how it impacts Puerto Ricans, women and young people [handbill]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/103/041/1583041103.0.b.jpg)
Picture gentrification, picture racism; come discuss gentrification, why and how it happens, and how it impacts Puerto Ricans, women and young people [handbill]
Chicago: Prairie Fire Organizing Committee :: Puerto Rican Cultural Center & friends, nd. Handbill. Double-sided 8.5x11 inch sheet, info on back, event info on front; faint middle crease, two staple perforations along edge, otherwise in very good condition.
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$75.00
Raphael House annual report 2000
San Francisco: Raphael House, 2000. Magazine. 16p., 8.5x11 inches, program descriptions, volunteer and donor lists, statistics, history, photos, very good booklet in stapled white pictorial wraps.
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$15.00
The Proud and the Immortal
by Rivera, Oswald
Solon: Polar Bear & Co, 2003. Paperback. 365p., very good first edition trade paperback original in pictorial wraps. Puerto Rican author whose debut novel was a highly-acclaimed story set in Vietnam. Here he considers homelessness.
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$15.00
Just Goin': four stories
by Hoppe, W. Joe, photography by Lynette Meyer
Minneapolis: Lucky Tiger Press, 1988. Staplebound. 42p., 7x8.5 inches, four stories illustrated with b&w photos, light soiling to covers with faint "10" on cover else very good first edition booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. Michigan author who works with the homeless and now lives in and teaches in Austin, TX. Street-savvy stories of the down-and-out and maybe on the move.
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$25.00
Homelessness: 'The People' exposed. The criminal hypocrisy of a Sunday newspaper
Dartford, Kent: Friends of King Hill, 1967. Four-page, 8.25x10 inch pamphlet, edgeworn. The Friends of King Hill, an organization aiding the homeless in Kent County, attacks a local newspaper for its sensationalistic coverage of the homeless crisis and its campaign of mockery against a homeless man, Roy Mills, described by The People as a "phoney martyr.
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$18.00
Homelessness, AIDS, and Stigmatization; the NIMBY Syndrome in the United States at the End of the Twentieth Century
by Takahashi, Lois M
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007. Hardcover. xiv, 267p., illustrated boards, small price sticker on rear board, top corners slightly bumped, else in very good condition. Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies.
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$30.00
Flophouse An Authentic Undercover Study...Including Missions, Shelters,...1948 First Edition
by Dees, Jesse Walter
1948 - Flophouse An Authentic Undercover Study of Flophouses, Cage Hotels, Including Missions, Shelters and Institutions Serving Unattached (Homeless) Men. A Sociological Study that Includes English Origins of Mass Relief -- Samples of American Mass Relief and a Modern Investigation of Public and Private Policies in Chicago. New Hampshire: Marshall Jones Company, 1948 First Edition.Signed by author ( see photograph )"In the role of a bona fide client, the author registered for relief, took the pauper's...
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$122.75
Talking Houses: Ten Lectures
by Ward, Colin
London: Freedom Press, 1990. Paperback. 142p., pictorial wraps, 5.9x8.25 inches. Small stain on fore-edge, else very good. Essays on anarchism, working-class housing, urban planning, and the built environment,
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$25.00
Report to the governor on recommendations for federal legislation
by Florida Transient Co-ordinating Committee
Jacksonville, FL: Florida Transient Co-ordinating Committee, 1936. Pamphlet. [5p.], wraps, vertically creased, minor toning else good condition, 6x9 inches. One copy in OCLC as of 8/12/2021.
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$20.00
![The view from here celebrating 10 years of Street Sheet [foreword by Lawrence Ferlinghetti]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/386/929/452929386.0.b.jpg)
The view from here celebrating 10 years of Street Sheet [foreword by Lawrence Ferlinghetti]
San Francisco: A Project of the Coalition on Homelessness, 1999. 134p., illustrated in b&w from the newspaper, with inserted color plates; small oblong in glossy decorated 5x8 inch wraps. Slightly edgeworn and thumbed.
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$12.00
