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Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded Age

Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded Age

Markee, Patrick

Hardcover

General Political ScienceGeneral SociologyPoverty & Social Work

Publisher Price: $31.99

ISBN10: 1685891675
ISBN13: 9781685891671
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Published: Dec 2 2025
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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

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