{"product_id":"9781685891671","title":"Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded Age","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eMarkee, Patrick\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMelville House\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e12\/2\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eHardcover\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the tradition of Matthew Desmond's \u003ci\u003eEvicted\u003c\/i\u003e, a longtime housing  activist presents a vivid and myth-breaking account of why homelessness  endures in contemporary America...\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMillions  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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInformed 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.\u003ci\u003e Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded Age\u003c\/i\u003e presents an alternative and innovative, wide-angle view of homelessness  and displacement in New York and elsewhere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA  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:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003earmories once built to quarter militias who put down worker uprisings \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ea  train tunnel underneath Riverside Park\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ea grim intake center where  infants, children, and families were forced to sleep on office floors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ea  former psychiatric wing of Bellevue Hospital now sheltering hundreds of  homeless men each night\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ea Manhattan park surrounded by luxury  condos where the police routinely harassed homeless street-dwellers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlending  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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt  a moment where tabloids and politicians use homelessness as an excuse  to whip up fear, \u003ci\u003ePlaceless\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful and moving account of a social  problem whose solution is entirely possible.","brand":"Melville House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46447195980031,"sku":"9781685891671","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9781685891671_s600x595.jpg?v=1775597380","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/products\/9781685891671","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}