Willse, Craig, 1975-

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.

9780816693474 (hc : alk. paper) 9780816693481 (pb : alk. paper)

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Homelessness--United States.
Homeless persons--United States.
Housing policy--United States.


United States--Economic conditions--2009-
United States--Social conditions--1980-

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