Where Have All The Homeless Gone?

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. This book, based on five years of ethnographic research in New York City with African Americans and Latinos, argues that the homeless crisis was driven by misunderstandings about poverty, race and social difference, rather than by the housing, employment, and healthcare problems that caused housing loss in American cities during that period.