Making Room: The Economics of Homelessness

by Brendan O'Flaherty

Book Overview

Mentally ill people turned out of institutions, crack-cocaine use on the rise, more poverty, public housing a shambles: as attempts to explain homelessness multiply so do the homeless--and we still don't know why. The first full-scale economic analysis of homelessness, Making Room provides answers quite unlike those offered so far by sociologists and pundits. It is a story about markets, not about the bad habits or pathology of individuals...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674543432
• ISBN13: 9780674543430
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"