Dan McMurry

Latest by Dan McMurry in Chronicles

• Vital Signs

  October 1990

  The Myth of the Homeless Family

  I had just finished delivering the keynote address at the Hesburgh Public Policy Colloquium on "Housing and Homelessness" at the University of Notre Dame, and the questioning had begun.

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• Reviews

  April 1989

  The Speechless Sick

  Two-Step is a tall, skinny black man who has lived at the Nashville Union Rescue Mission for seven years. In nice weather he can be seen standing beside the Mission holding his pajama bottom up with one hand and doing a slow, rhythmical shuffle, hour after hour.

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• Reviews

  December 1988

  No Hope for the Homeless

  This book is a 272-page inventory of Mother Hubbard's cupboard. Almost without exception, the contributed articles treat the homeless as some vague, faceless group, far distant from the authors' time and place.

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• View

  August 1988

  Hard Living on Easy Street

  With the falling leaves and falling temperatures, hordes of newspeople looking for the hungry and homeless descended on the missions and the shelters. Now collectively called Street People, Streetniks (my term) became the "darlings of the press".

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