Where Have All the Homeless Gone?: The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis

by Anthony Marcus

Book Overview

For 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845451015
• ISBN13: 9781845451011
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"