Homeless : Poverty and Place in Urban America /

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This book explores the efforts of private and public institutions to solve the problem of homelessness by tracing the rise and fall of skid rows in America through the lens of New York's Bowery. Crowded onto skid rows, the homeless lived apart from the middle classes, who saw them as an aberran...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Howard, Ella (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Skid row.
Homelessness.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Quartiers malfames.
Itinerance > New York (État) > New York > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Homelessness > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
New York (State) > New York > Bowery (Street)
New York (State) > New York.
Bowery (New York, N.Y. : Street)
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The challenge of the Depression
  • A new deal for the homeless
  • Skid Row in an era of plenty
  • Urban renewal and the challenge of homelessness
  • Operation Bowery and social scientific inquiry
  • The end of the skid-row era
  • Conclusion : whither the homeless.

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