Maybe it's because I'm reading this book in 2024, and it was written in 2016 with data from 2008 and 2009,  but I really struggled with this book.  I struggle with ethnography maybe in general, but in this book it almost felt like poverty tourism. Knowing you can leave at any time, how could you possibly write on the topic? 

I wished there are been more statistics and facts to tie in with the stories, but most of all - a book written in 2016 with no mention of some of the upcoming programs like Housing First in Houston (which started in 2012). Maybe Housing first wasn't big news by 2016, the way they're talking about it now that they have 10 years of data, but it just always felt like something was missing.