Housing First is a hegemonic model of homeless services that advocates immediate placement in permanent supportive housing without preconditions such as sobriety, treatment, or employment. Federal authorities in the United States have adopted Housing First as a governmentality to make social investments through homeless policy. Although research has examined logics that federal authorities used to make this social investment, sociologists have devoted little attention to techniques that frontline workers use to yield returns on social investment in neoliberal cities. This knowledge gap hinders sociologists from theorizing contemporary urban poverty governance. I make three contributions that address this shortcoming. First, I present a unique qualitative analysis that examines techniques that Housing First providers in a U.S. Rust Belt county use to select a lease configuration for their clients. Second, I expand the definition of economization to incorporate logics that Housing First providers use to estimate transaction costs they will confront while mediating rental market exchanges with a particular lease configuration. Third, I demonstrate, unlike federal policymakers who economize homeless populations as public expenditures to make social investments, service providers economize homeless individuals as transaction costs to yield returns on Housing First in urban communities.

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通过住房优先接受者的微观经济化为无家可归者政策带来回报

住房优先是无家可归者服务的霸权模式，它提倡立即安置在永久性支持性住房中，而无需诸如清醒、治疗或就业等先决条件。美国联邦当局已将住房优先作为政府通过无家可归政策进行社会投资。尽管研究已经研究了联邦当局用来进行这种社会投资的逻辑，但社会学家很少关注一线工人用来在新自由主义城市中获得社会投资回报的技术。这种知识差距阻碍了社会学家将当代城市贫困治理理论化。我提出了三个解决这个缺点的贡献。首先，我提出了一个独特的定性分析，该分析检查了美国住房优先提供者的技术 锈带县使用为其客户选择租赁配置。其次，我扩展了节约的定义，以纳入住房优先供应商用来估计他们将面临的交易成本的逻辑，同时通过特定的租赁配置来调解租赁市场交易。第三，我证明，与将无家可归人口节约为公共支出以进行社会投资的联邦政策制定者不同，服务提供者将无家可归者节约为交易成本，以在城市社区的住房优先中获得回报。