The value of homelessness : managing surplus life in the United States /
Craig Willse.
- ix, 213 pages ; 22 cm.
- Difference incorporated .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: housing and other monsters -- Surplus life, or race and death in neoliberal times -- Homelessness as method: social science and the racial order -- From pathology to population: managing homelessness in the United States -- Governing through numbers: HUD and the databasing of homelessness -- The invention of chronic homelessness -- Conclusion: surplus life at the limits of the good.