A First-Person Look at Homelessness

More than four years ago, UAB Associate Professor of Sociology Jeffrey Michael Clair, Ph.D., and UAB alumnus Jason Wasserman, Ph.D., set out to find the answer to a simple question: Why do many homeless individuals prefer living on the street to living in shelters? So the two ventured into the streets of Birmingham to interview homeless people, learning in the process that many programs and policies designed to help the homeless succeed only in alienating them.

In their new book At Home on the Street: People, Poverty and a Hidden Culture of Homelessness, Clair and Wasserman give readers an in-depth look at long-term homelessness and show the true meaning of life on the street.

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