Program Credits

Sharon Zak, Bill Adams, Lynn Tarry, and Roosevelt Douglas all live in single-room occupancy residences today, a new type of housing for the homeless that includes social workers on the premises and government subsidized rents. Lost in America was produced by Helen Borten, with special thanks to Ellen Baxter, a pioneer in the field of housing for the homeless. The show was mixed by Marilyn Ries. It originally aired as part of "A Sense of Place", written and produced by Helen Borten, and funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Resources

Links:
Homeless Newspapers
Homeless.org's list of homeless newspapers around the world.

Real Change
This article is about Real Change, a newspaper in Seattle, Washington that is sold by homeless street vendors. Read about this phenomenon that is finding support in cities around the world.

Personal Experiences of Homelessness
This website, part of the website for the National Coalition for the Homeless, features personal testimony from the formerly homeless.

National Coalition for the Homeless
Learn how you can help end homelessness.

Books:
Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women
by: Elliot Liebow 1995
The author, former director of anthropological research at the National Institute of Mental Health, began volunteering at a soup kitchen in 1984. This book tells the stories of the women he met there.