Locating the homeless: Citizenship, advocacy, and the limits of narrative

This dissertation investigates contemporary narratives of homelessness in the United States after the McKinney Act of 1987, the first federal acknowledgement of homelessness and the proposed solution to it. Since 1987, narratives of homelessness usually do one of two things, and sometimes both. They...

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Main Author: Payne, Shannon
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2008
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3336962