LEADER 04091nam 2200781 450 001 9910459710603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-7970-3 010 $a0-8014-5553-7 010 $a0-8014-5554-5 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801455544 035 $a(CKB)3710000000379942 035 $a(EBL)3138715 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001460534 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12607009 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001460534 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11467644 035 $a(PQKB)11428441 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001516670 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138715 035 $a(OCoLC)1080550316 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58309 035 $a(DE-B1597)478451 035 $a(OCoLC)905902677 035 $a(OCoLC)979743867 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801455544 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138715 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11034368 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL759709 035 $a(OCoLC)922998674 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000379942 100 $a20140728d2015 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBetter must come $eexiting homelessness in two global cities /$fMatthew D. Marr 210 1$aIthaca :$cILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (240 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-336-28423-4 311 $a0-8014-5338-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe global and local origins of homelessness in Los Angeles and Tokyo -- Searching for state aid -- Searching for work and housing -- Ties with organizational staff -- Ties with family. 330 $aIn Better Must Come, Matthew D. Marr reveals how social contexts at various levels combine and interact to shape the experiences of transitional housing program users in two of the most prosperous cities of the global economy, Los Angeles and Tokyo. Marr, who has conducted fieldwork in U.S. and Japanese cities for over two decades, followed the experiences of thirty-four people as they made use of transitional housing services and after they left such programs. This comparative ethnography is groundbreaking in two ways-it is the first book to directly focus on exits from homelessness in American or Japanese cities, and it is the first targeted comparison of homelessness in two global cities.Marr argues that homelessness should be understood primarily as a socially generated, traumatic, and stigmatizing predicament, rather than as a stable condition, identity, or culture. He pushes for movement away from the study of "homeless people" and "homeless culture" toward an understanding of homelessness as a condition that can be transcended at individual and societal levels. Better Must Come prescribes policy changes to end homelessness that include expanding subsidized housing to persons without disabilities and experiencing homelessness chronically, as well as taking broader measures to address vulnerabilities produced by labor markets, housing markets, and the rapid deterioration of social safety nets that often results from neoliberal globalization. 606 $aHomelessness$zCalifornia$zLos Angeles 606 $aHomelessness$zJapan$zTokyo 606 $aHomeless persons$xServices for$zCalifornia$zLos Angeles 606 $aHomeless persons$xServices for$zJapan$zTokyo 606 $aShelters for the homeless$zCalifornia$zLos Angeles 606 $aShelters for the homeless$zJapan$zTokyo 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aHomelessness 615 0$aHomelessness 615 0$aHomeless persons$xServices for 615 0$aHomeless persons$xServices for 615 0$aShelters for the homeless 615 0$aShelters for the homeless 676 $a362.5/920952135 700 $aMarr$b Matthew D.$f1971-$01054650 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459710603321 996 $aBetter must come$92487465 997 $aUNINA