{"product_id":"placeless-homelessness-in-the-new-gilded-age","title":"Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded Age","description":"\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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":"Patrick Markee","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47288355782892,"sku":"9781685891671","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781685891671.jpg?v=1770544067","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/placeless-homelessness-in-the-new-gilded-age","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}