Making Room The Economics of Homelessness

Name: Making Room The Economics of Homelessness
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ISBN: 9780674543430

ISBN-10: 0674543432

ISBN-13: 9780674543430

Edition: 1996

Authors: Brendan O'Flaherty

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As attempts to explain homelessness multiply, so do the homeless. The first full-scale economic analysis of homelessness, Making Room provides answers quite unlike those offered so far.

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 1/13/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990

Brendan O'Flaherty is Professor of Economics at Columbia University.



Acknowledgments


Introduction


What Is Homelessness?


Why Is It Bad?


Homeless Histories


Daytime Streetpeople


How to Think about Housing Markets


Income Distribution


Interest Rates and Operating Costs


Cross-Section Studies


Government and Housing


Income Maintenance


Mental Health


Substance Abuse


Criminal Justice


What We Should Do Appendix: Homeless Studies


Notes


References


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