> Interesting, I thought that homeless for "indigent" or "beggar" was a very
> recent invention, but I see that it has been used that way since the late
> eighteenth century. Still, what I really want to dig into is how it became
> the dominant term ...around the early eighties...
you could start from here:
http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/homeless/feb99/0037.html
> Can anyone recommend a google search strategy?... somehow I suspect that
> looking for "Homeless" will get me nowhere.
I'd try with : "History of homelessness" (remember the quotation marks"
ciao, alessandro