Placeless : homelessness in the new gilded age / Patrick Markee.
"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.
- Copyright: ©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.
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- Homelessness > United States.
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