Where Have All the Homeless Gone?: The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis
- ISBN-10
- 1845450507
- ISBN-13
- 9781845450502
- Category
- Homeless persons
- Pages
- 184
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Author
- Anthony Marcus
Description
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 misrepresentations of poverty, race, and social difference, as the housing, unemployment, and healthcare problems that caused homelessness and continue to plague American cities.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2006
- 180 pages
- Paperback
- Berghahn Books
Similar books
-
Homelessness: Prevention Strategies and Effectiveness
By Martha R. BurtSite Visits The study team visited six sites. A two-person team visited Montgomery County over the course of three days; the Kansas City metropolitan area ...
-
Homelessness: Programs and the People They Serve
By Martha R. BurtThis 1996 Nat.
-
Strategies for Improving Homeless People's Access to Mainstream Benefits and Services
By Martha R. BurtMartha R. Burt. • Department of Human Service/Homeless Action and Response Team (HART) - Jill Baker, ... Veterans - Martha Chick-Ebey (Community Outreach) • Housing Broker Team - Mike Taylor and Jill White • Norfolk Redevelopment and ...
-
Helping America's Homeless: Emergency Shelter Or Affordable Housing?
By Martha R. Burt, Laudan Y. Aron, Edgar LeeLongtime Urban Institute researcher Martha Burt and her co-authors provide an in-depth analysis of homelessness, exploring issues such as how many homeless people there are in America, where they are, why they became homeless, how long ...
-
Discharged with Care: A Report on Practical Arrangements for People Leaving Psychiatric Hospitals in Scotland and the Prevention of Homelessness
By Ian TaylorDischarged with Care: A Report on Practical Arrangements for People Leaving Psychiatric Hospitals in Scotland and the Prevention of Homelessness
-
A Recipe for Hope: Stories of Transformation by People Struggling with Homelessness
By Karen M. SkalitzkyIn A Recipe of Hope, the popular misconception that most homeless are uneducated, mentally ill or addicted to drugs is challenged by true, diverse stories of struggle and defeat, victory...
-
Homelessness: An Annotated Bibliography
By James M. Henslin274 Lamb , H. Richard 48 , 274-276 Lambert , Bruce 276 , 277 Lambert , Sylvia 184 Lancaster , Hal 277 Lander , Louise ... Elliot 437 Light , Donald , Jr. 85 Light , Gordon F. 292 Light , Lou 293 Lilliefors , Manfred , Jr. 293 Lincoln ...
-
Birthday Girl
By Matthew IdenBlow out a candle.
-
Lost People: Short Stories
By Paul PerryLost People is Paul Perry's second effort to document and destroy the sterotypes surrounding homeless people in the United States. These fictional pieces tend to be character-driven and heavy on hope.
-
Literacy and Homelessness: Delivering Literacy in an Adult Drop-In: A Collaborative Research Project of St. Christopher House Adult Literacy Program,...
By Karen Farmer, St. Christopher House, Ont.). Adult Literacy ProgramLiteracy and Homelessness: Delivering Literacy in an Adult Drop-In: A Collaborative Research Project of St. Christopher House Adult Literacy Program,...