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Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded Age

Name: Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded Age
Brand: Melville House Publishing
SKU: 9781685891671
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Contributors:

Patrick Markee

Publisher:

Melville House Publishing

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

Social Science, Political Science

Book Subcategory:

Poverty & Homelessness, Sociology, Public Policy

Book Topic:

Urban, Social Policy

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Release Date:

12/2/2025

ISBN 13:

9781685891671

Weight:

1.25 lbs

Size:

9.10 x 6.30 x 1.40 inches

Pages:

352

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In the tradition of Matthew Desmond's Evicted, a longtime housing activist presents a vivid and myth-breaking account of why homelessness endures in contemporary America...

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 New York City and his work with housing activists across the country. Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded Age presents an alternative and innovative, wide-angle view of homelessness and displacement in New York and elsewhere.

A tour of the geography of homelessness in New York City, where some 100,000 people a night sleep in the city's shelter system, Markee visits certain city landmarks where homeless New Yorkers struggle to survive:

armories once built to quarter militias who put down worker uprisings
a train tunnel underneath Riverside Park
a grim intake center where infants, children, and families were forced to sleep on office floors
a former psychiatric wing of Bellevue Hospital now sheltering hundreds of homeless men each night
a Manhattan park surrounded by luxury condos where the police routinely harassed homeless street-dwellers

Blending historical analysis, urban theory, and the latest policy research, Markee considers homelessness in America as a tragic yet inevitable consequence of economic shifts inaugurated in the Reagan era, worsening inequality and housing affordability, systemic racism, and neoliberal government policies.

At a moment where tabloids and politicians use homelessness as an excuse to whip up fear, Placeless is a powerful and moving account of a social problem whose solution is entirely possible.

About the Author
Patrick Markee is the former deputy executive director for Advocacy of the Coalition for the Homeless, New York's premier homeless advocacy organization, and a member of the board of directors of the National Coalition for the Homeless. He has authored numerous research studies on homelessness and housing policy, and has written for The Nation and the New York Times Book Review. He lives in New York City.

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