The Word On The Street: Homeless Men In Las Vegas

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Just beyond Las Vegas’s neon and fantasy live thousands of homeless people, most of them men. To the millions of visitors who come to Las Vegas each and every year to enjoy its gambling and entertainment, the city’s homeless people are in large part invisible, segregated from tourist areas because it’s “good business.” Now, through candid discussions with homeless men, analysis of news reports, and years of fieldwork, Kurt Borchard reveals the lives and desperation of men without shelter in Las Vegas.

Borchard’s account offers a graphic, disturbing, and profoundly moving picture of life on Las Vegas’s streets, depicting the strategies that homeless men employ so as to continue to exist, from the search for a secure place to sleep at night to the challenges of finding food, maintaining personal hygiene, and finding an acceptable place to rest right through a long day in the street.

That such misery and desperation exist in the middle of Las Vegas’s hedonistic tourist economy and booming urban development is a cruel irony, in step with the writer, and it threatens the city’s future as a prime tourist destination. The book will be of interest to social workers, sociologists, anthropologists, politicians, and all those concerned about changing the misery in the street.


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