{"product_id":"9781685891671","title":"Placeless","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\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":"Patrick Markee","offers":[{"title":"Melville House |  Hardback  |  2025-12-02","offer_id":47796734722303,"sku":"9781685891671","price":41.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_77ca0cf1-5119-4a7c-bec9-cb198d8cf87e.jpg?v=1765559183","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781685891671","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}