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100 1 $aHoward, Ella.
245 10 $aHomeless :$bpoverty and place in urban America /$cElla Howard.
246 30 $aPoverty and place in urban America
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aPhiladelphia :$bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$cc2013.
300 $a276 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aPolitics and culture in modern America
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [223]-267) and index.
505 0 $aThe 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.
520 $a"The homeless have the legal right to exist in modern American cities, yet anti -homeless ordinances deny them access to many public spaces. How did previous generations of urban dwellers deal with the tensions between the rights of the homeless and those of other city residents? Ella Howard answers this question by tracing the history of skid rows from their rise in the late nineteenth century to their eradication in the mid-twentieth century. Focusing on New York's infamous Bowery, Homeless analyzes the efforts of politicians, charity administrators, social workers, urban planners, and social scientists as they grappled with the problem of homelessness. The development of the Bowery from a respectable entertainment district to the nation's most infamous skid row offers a lens through which to understand national trends of homelessness and the complex relationship between poverty and place.
520 $aMaintained by cities across the country as a type of informal urban welfare, skid rows anchored the homeless to a specific neighborhood, offering inhabitants places to eat, drink, sleep, and find work while keeping them comfortably removed from the urban middle classes. This separation of the homeless from the core of city life fostered simplistic and often inaccurate understandings of their plight. Most efforts to assist them centered on reforming their behavior rather than addressing structural economic concerns. By mid century, as city centers became more valuable, urban renewal projects and waves of gentrification destroyed skid rows and with them the public housing and social services they offered. With nowhere to go, the poor scattered across the urban landscape into public spaces, only to confront laws that effectively criminalized behavior associated with abject poverty.
520 $aRichly detailed, Homeless lends insight into the meaning of homelessness and poverty in twentieth-century America and offers us a new perspective on the modern welfare system." -- Publisher's description.
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