Skid Road: On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in Seattle
Skid Road: On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in Seattle
Ensign, Josephine
product information
Condition: New, UPC: 9780295751542, Publication Date: Sun, January 1, 2023, Type: Paperback ,
join & start selling
description
State Book Award

Affluent Seattle has one of the highest numbers of unhoused people in the United States. In 2021 an estimated 40,800 people experienced homelessness in Seattle and King County during the year, not counting the significant number of "hidden" homeless people doubled up with friends or living in and out of cheap hotels. In Skid Road Josephine Ensign uncovers the stories of overlooked and long-silenced people who have lived on the margins of society throughout Seattle's history.

How, Ensign asks, has a large, socially progressive city like Seattle responded to the health and social needs of people marginalized by poverty, mental illness, addiction, racial/ethnic/sexual identities, and homelessness? Through extensive historical research, Ensign pieces together the lives and deaths of those not included in official histories of the city. Drawing on interviews, she also shares a diversity of voices within contemporary health and social care and public policy debates. Ensign explores the tensions between caregiving and oppression, as well as charity and solidarity, that polarize perspectives on homelessness throughout the country.

A Michael J. Repass Book

reviews

Be the first to write a review

member goods

No member items were found under this heading.

notems store

listens & views

GOLDEN RECORDINGS 1956-57

by HARPTONES

COMPACT DISC

out of stock

$13.25

MESSAGE (UK)

by GRANDMASTER FLASH / FURIOUS FIVE

COMPACT DISC

out of stock

$10.99

MI PASO POR CHEBERE: EN ...

by PELUSA

COMPACT DISC

out of stock

$11.99

LULLABYES & GOODBYES

by CANTABILE

COMPACT DISC

$18.49

Return Policy

All sales are final

Shipping

No special shipping considerations available.
Shipping fees determined at checkout.
promoting relevance through notable postings ]
share it, buy it, sell it ]

A notem is a post that highlights an experience, idea, topic of interest, an event ... whatever a member believes worthy of discussion. Each notem becomes a pathway by which to make meaningful connections.

notems is a free, global social network that rewards members by the number and quality of notems they post.

notemote® © . Privacy Policy. Developed by Hartmann Software Group