LEADER 02223nam 22003853u 450 001 9910494624903321 005 20211025160614.0 010 $a0-85745-696-2 035 $a(CKB)2670000000530177 035 $a(EBL)1118847 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1118847 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000530177 100 $a20140310d2005|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 200 10$aWhere have all the homeless gone?$b[electronic resource] $ethe making and unmaking of a crisis 210 $aNew York, NY $cBerghahn Books$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (176 p.) 225 1 $aDislocations 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-84545-101-5 327 $aContents; 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 330 $aFor a decade, from 1983 to 1993, homelessness was a major concern in the United States. In 1994, this public concern suddenly disappeared, without any significant reduction in the number of people without proper housing. By examining the making and unmaking of a homeless crisis, this book explores how public understandings of what constitutes a social crisis are shaped. Drawing on five years of ethnographic research in New York City with African Americans and Latinos living in poverty, Where Have All the Homeless Gone? reveals that the homeless "crisis" was driven as much by political 410 0$aDislocations 606 $aHomelessness 615 0$aHomelessness. 676 $a362.5097471 700 $aMarcus$b Anthony$01042561 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910494624903321 996 $aWhere have all the homeless gone$92466902 997 $aUNINA