{"product_id":"the-value-of-homelessness-craig-willse-9780816693481","title":"The Value of Homelessness: Managing Surplus Life in the United States","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt is all too easy to assume that social service programs respond to homelessness, seeking to prevent and understand it. \u003ci\u003eThe Value of Homelessness\u003c\/i\u003e, however, argues that homelessness today is an effect of social services and sciences, which shape not only what counts as such but what will?or ultimately won't?be done about it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough a history of U.S. housing insecurity from the 1930s to the present, Craig Willse traces the emergence and consolidation of a homeless services industry. How to most efficiently allocate resources to control ongoing insecurity has become the goal, he shows, rather than how to eradicate the social, economic, and political bases of housing needs. Drawing on his own years of work in homeless advocacy and activist settings, as well as interviews conducted with program managers, counselors, and staff at homeless services organizations in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle, Willse provides the first analysis of how housing insecurity becomes organized as a governable social problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn unprecedented and powerful historical account of the development of contemporary ideas about homelessness and how to manage homelessness, \u003ci\u003eThe Value of Homelessness\u003c\/i\u003e offers new ways for students and scholars of social work, urban inequality, racial capitalism, and political theory to comprehend the central role of homelessness in governance and economy today.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Craig Willse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081669348X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816693481\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2016","brand":"Craig Willse","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44829776838911,"sku":"9780816693481","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_118e501a-f990-408b-a5b6-7c1d6ed9a4ce.jpg?v=1708451617","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-value-of-homelessness-craig-willse-9780816693481","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}