Women and Crisis: An Overview of Homelessness in the First and Third World
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Margrit Bergholz is a master's student In the Department ofCity and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina atChapel Hill. She has extensive professional experience in affordable housing development and finance, having wortced for the cities of Philadelphia and Fremont, Ca/ifomla; the County ofLos Angeles; and several nonprofit organiza tions. Homelessness in some form exists in every society. However, substantial differences exist between First and Third World countries in such basic aspects of homelessness as its definition, its genesis, and the percentages of populations affected. Paradoxically, the causes and problems of homelessness among women show a striking consistency across cultures. Writing in reference to Southeast Asia, J.D. Conroy (1987:100) observes:
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