Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded Age - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Melville House PublishingISBN-13:9781685891671ISBN-10:1685891675UPC:9781685891671Book Category:Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Poverty & Homelessness, Sociology, Public PolicyBook Topic:Urban, Social PolicySize:9.10 x 6.30 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SCXF7FXBK3
Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded Age
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Melville House PublishingISBN-13:9781685891671ISBN-10:1685891675UPC:9781685891671Book Category:Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Poverty & Homelessness, Sociology, Public PolicyBook Topic:Urban, Social PolicySize:9.10 x 6.30 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SCXF7FXBK3
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...
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