This "is a sociological case study of a subculture of street life among the unattached adults, mainly males,
who lived in or passed through Austin, Texas, between the fall of 1984 and the summer of 1986. . . . We focus our
attention primarily on life on the streets as it is experienced by the homeless, that is, on their strategies and
struggles to subsist from one moment to the next, materially, socially, and psychologically." (Preface)
