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Placeless

Homelessness In The New Gilded Age

Patrick Markee

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Melville House Publishing
16 December 2025
In the tradition of Matthew Desmond's Evicted, a longtime housing

activist presents a vivid and myth-breaking account of why homelessness

endures in contemporary America...

In the tradition of Matthew Desmond's Evicted, a longtime housing

activist presents a vivid and myth-breaking account of why homelessness

endures in contemporary America...

Millions

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.

Informed 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. Placeless- Homelessness in the New Gilded Age presents an alternative and innovative, wide-angle view of homelessness

and displacement in New York and elsewhere.

A

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-

armories once built to quarter militias who put down worker uprisings

a

train tunnel underneath Riverside Park a grim intake center where

infants, children, and families were forced to sleep on office floors a

former psychiatric wing of Bellevue Hospital now sheltering hundreds of

homeless men each night a Manhattan park surrounded by luxury

condos where the police routinely harassed homeless street-dwellers

Blending

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.

At

a moment where tabloids and politicians use homelessness as an excuse

to whip up fear, Placeless is a powerful and moving account of a social

problem whose solution is entirely possible.
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Imprint:   Melville House Publishing
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm, 
Weight:   567g
ISBN:   9781685891671
ISBN 10:   1685891675
Pages:   272
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming

Patrick Markee is the former deputy executive director for Advocacy of the Coalition for the Homeless, New York's premier homeless advocacy organization, and a member of the board of directors of the National Coalition for the Homeless. He has authored numerous research studies on homelessness and housing policy, and has written for The Nation and the New York Times Book Review. He lives in New York City.

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