LEADER 03078nam 2200613 450 001 9910787878803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-85745-696-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9780857456960 035 $a(CKB)2670000000530177 035 $a(EBL)1118847 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1118847 035 $a(DE-B1597)636282 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780857456960 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1118847 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10846082 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL600268 035 $a(OCoLC)871856274 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000530177 100 $a20140325h20102010 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWhere have all the homeless gone? $ethe making and unmaking of a crisis /$fAnthony Marcus 210 1$aNew York :$cBerghahn Books,$d[2010] 210 4$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (176 p.) 225 1 $aDislocations ;$vvolume 1 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-84545-101-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 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 ;$vvolume 1. 606 $aHomeless persons$zNew York (State)$zNew York 606 $aHomeless persons$xGovernment policy$zNew York (State)$zNew York 606 $aHousing policy$zNew York (State)$zNew York 607 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xRace relations 607 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xPolitics and government 607 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xEconomic policy 615 0$aHomeless persons 615 0$aHomeless persons$xGovernment policy 615 0$aHousing policy 676 $a362.5097471 700 $aMarcus$b Anthony$01573277 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787878803321 996 $aWhere have all the homeless gone$93848946 997 $aUNINA