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Placeless : homelessness in the new gilded age / Patrick Markee.

Markee, Patrick, (author.).

Summary:

"Millions of people are affected by homelessness, but media pundits and politicians see homelessness as a social work problem, or a matter of personal pathology, or some peculiar subspecies of urban poverty. Informed by the author's own front-line experiences from more than two decades working as an advocate for homeless people in NewYork City and his work with housing activists across the country. Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded Age presents an alternativeand innovative, wide-angle view of homelessness and displacement inNew York and elsewhere"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781685891671
  • ISBN: 1685891675
  • Physical Description: xvi, 334 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Brooklyn, NY : Melville House Publishing, 2025.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: places and spaces -- The train tunnel: pathologizing homelessness -- The Lower East Side and Thompkins Square Park: the origins of modern mass homelessness -- Madison Square Park: criminalizing homelessness -- The South Bronx: the backlash era -- Bedford-Stuyvesant: record homelessness in the Luxury City -- The EAU: systemic racism and homelessness -- Bellevue: mental illness and homelessness -- City Hall: ideoloogy and homelessness -- Armories: labor and homelessness -- Three-quarter houses: "permanent housing" and homelessness -- Washington, DC and beyond: urban America and homelessness -- Neighborhoods and homelands: mass displacement and homeless -- Conclusion: placeless.
Subject:
Homelessness > United States.
Homelessness > New York (State) > New York.

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