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O'Flaherty (economics, Columbia Univ.) sees "the rise of homelessness [as] an economic phenomenon" and argues persuasively that "income inequality is behind the increased homelessness in North America" today. In his important new book, he carefully focuses on six cities?New York, Newark, Chicago, Toronto, London, and Hamburg?documenting the conditions in each and showing that homelessness has grown there. He compares how each locale has dealt with the problem, noting successes and failures. Building an extremely convincing case, he shows how prior attempts to address the problem have been misguided and have led to failure. Although none of his suggestions for solving homelessness is new (e.g., shelter allowances, regulation redrafting, homeless work programs, changes in welfare policy, target therapy for homeless people), taken together they offer a scenario for change and hope. O'Flaherty has written a sensible and sensitive work that is grounded in research. Highly recommended for all large public libraries and institutions where homelessness is a particular concern.?Richard S. Drezen, Washington Post News Research Ctr., Washington, D.C.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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A 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 )
O'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 tour de force worthy of study by anyone with an interest in applied microeconomic theory.
--John M. Quigley (Journal of Economic Literature )
[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 colloquial homeless--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 )
The 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, Making Room belongs in the library of anyone interested in extreme poverty.
--Robert C. Ellickson, Yale Law School
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O'Flaherty (economics, Columbia Univ.) sees "the rise of homelessness [as] an economic phenomenon" and argues persuasively that "income inequality is behind the increased homelessness in North America" today. In his important new book, he carefully focuses on six cities?New York, Newark, Chicago, Toronto, London, and Hamburg?documenting the conditions in each and showing that homelessness has grown there. He compares how each locale has dealt with the problem, noting successes and failures. Building an extremely convincing case, he shows how prior attempts to address the problem have been misguided and have led to failure. Although none of his suggestions for solving homelessness is new (e.g., shelter allowances, regulation redrafting, homeless work programs, changes in welfare policy, target therapy for homeless people), taken together they offer a scenario for change and hope. O'Flaherty has written a sensible and sensitive work that is grounded in research. Highly recommended for all large public libraries and institutions where homelessness is a particular concern.?Richard S. Drezen, Washington Post News Research Ctr., Washington, D.C.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Review
A 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 )
O'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 tour de force worthy of study by anyone with an interest in applied microeconomic theory.
--John M. Quigley (Journal of Economic Literature )
[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 colloquial homeless--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 )
The 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, Making Room belongs in the library of anyone interested in extreme poverty.
--Robert C. Ellickson, Yale Law School
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