What To Do About Those Burnside Bums

One Dollar Magazine, 1976
by Mark Christensen

What To Do About Those Burnside Bums – if they won’t go away? (PDF)

Good snapshot of the clinical and economic drivers of homelessness and chronic illness – alcoholism and mental illness – pervasive in Portland’s inner city in the 1960s – 1970s.

Mark Christensen shook Portland off his shoes and decamped for LA where he authored several books on American culture, including Acid Christ and The Sweeps.