The Gradual Disappearance of Skid Row
- 1 July 1967
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Social Problems
- Vol. 15 (1) , 41-45
- https://doi.org/10.2307/798868
Abstract
Annual enumerations of the Bowery, Manhattan's skid-row area, have shown a consistent decline in population. Inquiries were sent to commissioners of welfare in forty United States cities to determine if the declining skid-row population is a local or a national phenomenon. Results indicate that in most cities the skid-row population is declining. Apparently, this decline is not due to a decrease in the absolute size of the homeless population, but rather to several factors which have operated to disperse homeless men from the traditional skid row to other parts of the city.Keywords
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