Making Room: The Economics of Homelessness

by Brendan O'Flaherty

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Mentally ill people turned out of institutions, crack-cocaine use on the rise, more poverty, public housing a shambles: as attempts to explain homelessness multiply so do the homeless--and we still don't know why. The first full-scale economic analysis of homelessness, Making Room provides answers quite unlike those offered so far by sociologists and pundits. It is a story about markets, not about the bad habits or pathology of individuals...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0674543432

ISBN13:9780674543430

Release Date:January 1998

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:352 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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Business Business & Finance Business & Investing Economic Conditions Economics Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Popular Economics Poverty Public Policy Social Science Social Sciences Sociology Urban

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