Tech professor co-authors book that calls for new ways of helping those on the streets
March 5, 2010
An assistant professor at Texas Tech has found many of the methods for dealing with the homeless are alienating and excluding.
An assistant professor at Texas Tech has found many of the methods for dealing with the homeless are alienating and excluding.
Jason Wasserman, in the department of sociology, anthropology and social work, said he and an associate professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham conducted research and interviews over a four-year period, concluding institutionalized programs for dealing with the homeless in Birmingham needed to look more closely at the homeless as individuals rather than as a group.