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Where have all the homeless gone? : the making and unmaking of a crisis / Anthony Marcus.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marcus, Anthony, author.
- Series:
- Dislocations ; volume 1.
- Dislocations ; volume 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homeless persons--New York (State)--New York.
- Homeless persons.
- Homeless persons--Government policy--New York (State)--New York.
- Housing policy--New York (State)--New York.
- Housing policy.
- New York (N.Y.)--Race relations.
- New York (N.Y.).
- New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government.
- New York (N.Y.)--Economic policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (176 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, [2010]
- Summary:
- For a decade, from 1983 to 1993, homelessness was a major concern in the United States. In 1994, this public concern suddenly disappeared, without any significant reduction in the number of people without proper housing. By examining the making and unmaking of a homeless crisis, this book explores how public understandings of what constitutes a social crisis are shaped. Drawing on five years of ethnographic research in New York City with African Americans and Latinos living in poverty, Where Have All the Homeless Gone? reveals that the homeless "crisis" was driven as much by political
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 - Who Are the Homeless, Really?; Chapter 2 - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Performance of Homelessness; Chapter 3 - New York City and the Historiography of Homelessness; Chapter 4 - The Poverty of Poverty Studies; Chapter 5 - Shelterization: In the Land of the Homeless; Chapter 6 - Doin' It in the System; Chapter 7 - The Black Family and Homelessness; Chapter 8 - Housing Panic and Urban Physiocrats; Chapter 9 - American Thatcherism: The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 26, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 9780857456960
- 0857456962
- OCLC:
- 871856274
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