Where have all the homeless gone? : the making and unmaking of a crisis

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781845451011
ISBN: 9781845450502
ISBN: 0857456962
ISBN: 9780857456960
Physical Description: 1 online resource (176 pages)
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Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books, [2010]
Copyright: ©2010

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 26, 2014).