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050 00 $aHV4488$b.O36 1996
100 1 $aO'Flaherty, Brendan.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85068252
245 10 $aMaking room :$bthe economics of homelessness /$cBrendan O'Flaherty.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bHarvard University Press,$c1996.
300 $axi, 349 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [329]-341) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tIntroduction --$g2.$tWhat Is Homelessness? --$g3.$tWhy Is It Bad? --$g4.$tHomeless Histories --$g5.$tDaytime Streetpeople --$g6.$tHow to Think about Housing Markets --$g7.$tIncome Distribution --$g8.$tInterest Rates and Operating Costs --$g9.$tCross-Section Studies --$g10.$tGovernment and Housing --$g11.$tIncome Maintenance --$g12.$tMental Health --$g13.$tSubstance Abuse --$g14.$tCriminal Justice --$g15.$tWhat We Should Do --$tAppendix: Homeless Studies.
520 $aMentally 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.
520 8 $aOne perplexing fact is that, though homelessness in the past occurred during economic depressions, the current wave started in the 1980s, a time of relative prosperity. As Brendan O'Flaherty points out, this trend has been accompanied by others just as unexpected: rising rents for poor people and continued housing abandonment. These are among the many disconcerting facts that O'Flaherty collected and analyzed in order to account for the new homelessness.
520 8 $aO'Flaherty shows that the conflicting observations begin to make sense when we see the new homelessness as a response to changes in the housing market, linked to a widening gap in the incomes of rich and poor. The resulting shrinkage in the size of the middle class has meant fewer hand-me-downs for the poor and higher rents for the low-quality housing that is available. O'Flaherty's tightly argued theory, along with the wealth of new data he introduces, will put the study of homelessness on a new plane.
520 8 $aNo future student or policymaker will be able to ignore the economic factor presented so convincingly in this plainspoken book.
650 0 $aHomelessness$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105757
650 0 $aHomelessness$zCanada.
650 0 $aHousing$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105833
650 0 $aHousing$zCanada.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105813
650 0 $aHousing policy$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105754
650 0 $aHousing policy$zCanada.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008121986
650 12 $aIll-Housed Persons.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006703
650 12 $aHousing.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006798
650 22 $aPublic Policy.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D011640
651 2 $aUnited States.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
651 2 $aCanada.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002170
852 00 $boff,hsl$hHV4488$i.O36 1996