Each successive section of this chapter has documented another set of problems experienced by the extremely poor and especially the homeless. In the previous chapter we also saw that unemployment and underemployment are endemic, and in this chapter we learned that so are signs of chronic mental illness, alcoholism, and poor health. The homeless have also frequently had run-ins with the criminal justice system, and their social supports are minimal. The accumulation of these conditions result in a profile of the homeless showing that only a handful do not suffer from one disability or another.
Rossi's famous survey of homelessness in Chicago during the '80s is a very factual survey of poverty and homelessness. How much truth you get out of it is debatable. It's hard work being poor.
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