Why did the rate of homelessness remain at significant levels while
the US economy was supposedly booming and hundreds of millions of
dollars were spent in the homeless sheltering industry? Drawing
upon five years of ethnographic fieldwork in a homeless shelter in
Northampton, Massachusetts, Lyon-Callo argues that homelessness
must be understood within the context of increasing neoliberal
policies, practices, and discourses. As advocates, activists,
policy makers, and homeless people focused attention on
market-based and individualized practices of reform and governance,
collective efforts that challenged an economy dependent on low wage
jobs, declining housing affordability, and the dismantling of the
social safety net were marginalized and ignored. Homelessness
continued, despite, and partly due to, the limitations of the
neoliberal approach.
Combining the rich detail of an ethnographic study with the
systemic examination of political economic studies, this book
offers a view of homelessness and inequality that is rarely
explored elsewhere. Chapters include discussion of the
medicalization of homelessness, the difficulty of finding paid
employment given broader political economic conditions, how shelter
staff are trained to manage homeless people, how statistics are
used to produce ideas of homeless people as deviants, and how
funding concerns affect possibilities for resistance. Key to the
study is an activist approach that raises the possibilities and
problems associated with a publicly engaged anthropology.
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