{"product_id":"making-room-9780674543430","title":"Making Room","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first full-scale economic analysis of homelessness, Making Room provides answers quite unlike those offered so far. Focused on six cities in America and Europe, Brendan O'Flaherty discusses the new homelessness as a response to changes in the housing market which is linked to a widening gap in the incomes of the rich and the poor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA longtime political operative in the city of Newark who happens to be something of a technical ace in a university economics department as well, O'Flaherty adopted a well-understood model of housing markets and put it to work testing various hypotheses...Thanks to him, the diagnosis [of the causes of homelessness] is increasingly clear. -- David Warsh * Boston Globe *\u003cbr\u003eO'Flaherty has written an important book to explain the rise of the 'new homelessness'...An original and wide-ranging account, written with grace and subtlety. It should be read carefully by any social scientist interested in poverty, housing, or urban policy...A \u003ci\u003etour de force\u003c\/i\u003e worthy of study by anyone with an interest in applied microeconomic theory. -- John M. Quigley * Journal of Economic Literature *\u003cbr\u003e[O'Flaherty's] questions are key to any basic analysis of the problem: What is homelessness? Why is it bad? What happened? Why did it happen? What can we do, and what should we do about it?...O'Flaherty's strength is documenting [the] daytime symbols of public poverty. He is mainly interested in the extent to which...single adults--whom he labels, for want of a better word, the \u003ci\u003ecolloquial homeless\u003c\/i\u003e--are affected by housing market and shelter policies. Are they really homeless? Are they inherently lazy? His findings are surprising. -- Elaine S. Abelson * Journal of Urban History *\u003cbr\u003eThe most original and wide-ranging book ever written on the homeless. [O'Flaherty] intrepidly challenges conventional theories of the rise of homelessness and offers fresh ones...Brash, iconoclastic, and down-to-earth, \u003ci\u003eMaking Room\u003c\/i\u003e belongs in the library of anyone interested in extreme poverty. -- Robert C. Ellickson, Yale Law School\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments    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   Index","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403596538199,"sku":"9780674543430","price":27.86,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674543430.jpg?v=1730483934","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/making-room-9780674543430","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}