Homeless: Poverty and Place in Urban America
ISBN: 9780812208269
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Homelessness -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century; Skid Row; Bowery (New York N.Y. : Street);

Homeless 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 aberrant population.


Ella Howard teaches urban history and material culture at Armstrong Atlantic State University.
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