Randall K. Hornelessness Filer, in NY (Autumn 1990), 42 E. 71 St.,New York, N.Y. 10021.
To many New Yorkers, daily encounters ways, roaming Central Park, or panhan- with homeless people sleeping in door- dling suggest a problem of crisis propor-
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tions. And it is, says Filer, an economist at residents in New York-one third the rate Hunter College, but not of the kind or for of 20 other large American cities. Curi- the reasons most people think. ously, though, New...