| Description |
xii, 189 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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text rdacontent |
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unmediated rdamedia |
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volume rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-184) and index. |
| Contents |
Homes on wheels -- Brief history of homelessness and vehicle living -- Navigating vehicle living -- Negotiating public spaces -- Service provision and programming -- Vehicle living vs. unsheltered homelessness -- When beggars become choosers. |
| Summary |
Privacy, mobility, dignity, living in a vehicle offers many advantages over life in a shelter or on the street. Here the author broadens our understanding of homelessness by exploring the growing phenomenon of vehicle living and how it differs from other forms of makeshift housing. Incorporating both quantitative data and ethnographic work in California, she takes us into the lives of those who call a car, truck, or RV home. She probes the forces that pushed them out of traditional housing, their unique strengths and vulnerabilities in navigating everyday life, and their complex relationships with local communities, law enforcement, and social service providers. Her analysis of this overlooked population illuminates the dynamics that make it so hard to break the cycle of regulation and resistance that impedes the escape from poverty. -- Publisher website. |
| Subject |
Homeless persons.
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Homelessness -- United States.
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Homeless persons -- Services for -- United States.
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Housing policy -- United States.
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Homeless persons. (OCoLC)fst00959445
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Homeless persons -- Services for.
(OCoLC)fst00959479
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Homelessness. (OCoLC)fst00959545
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Housing policy. (OCoLC)fst00962432
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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USA. (DE-588)4078704-7
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| ISBN |
9781935049876 (hc : alk. paper) |
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1935049879 (hc : alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
40022949578 |
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