Homeless : poverty and place in urban America /

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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Main Author: Howard, Ella (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Politics and culture in modern America.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central