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 African
Americans and Latinos living in poverty, Where Have All the
Homeless Gone? reveals that the homeless "crisis" was driven as
much by political misrepresentations of poverty, race, and social
difference, as the housing, unemployment, and healthcare problems
that caused homelessness and continue to plague American cities.
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