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Skid Road - On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in Seattle (Paperback)
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Skid Road - On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in Seattle (Paperback)
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List price R557
Loot Price R522
Discovery Miles 5 220
You Save R35 (6%)
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Affluent Seattle has one of the highest numbers of unhoused people
in the United States. In 2021 an estimated 40,800 people
experienced homelessness in Seattle and King County during the
year, not counting the significant number of "hidden" homeless
people doubled up with friends or living in and out of cheap
hotels. In Skid Road Josephine Ensign uncovers the stories of
overlooked and long-silenced people who have lived on the margins
of society throughout Seattle's history. How, Ensign asks, has a
large, socially progressive city like Seattle responded to the
health and social needs of people marginalized by poverty, mental
illness, addiction, racial/ethnic/sexual identities, and
homelessness? Through extensive historical research, Ensign pieces
together the lives and deaths of those not included in official
histories of the city. Drawing on interviews, she also shares a
diversity of voices within contemporary health and social care and
public policy debates. Ensign explores the tensions between
caregiving and oppression, as well as charity and solidarity, that
polarize perspectives on homelessness throughout the country.
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