The Value of Homelessness: Managing Surplus Life in the United States

by Craig Willse and Willse

It is all too easy to assume that social service programs respond to homelessness, seeking to prevent and understand it. The Value of Homelessness, however, argues that homelessness today is an effect of social services and sciences, which shape not only what counts as such but what will?or ultimately won't?be done about it.

Through a history of U.S. housing insecurity from the 1930s to the present, Craig Willse traces the emergence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081669348X
• ISBN13: 9780816693481
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"