Derelict Paradise: Homelessness and Urban Development in Cleveland, Ohio

by Daniel R. Kerr

Seeking answers to the question, "Who benefits from homelessness?" this book takes the reader on a sweeping tour of Cleveland's history from the late nineteenth-century through the early twenty-first. Daniel Kerr shows that homelessness has deep roots in the shifting ground of urban labor markets, social policy, downtown development, the criminal justice system, and corporate power. Rather than being attributable to the illnesses and inadequacies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558498494
• ISBN13: 9781558498495
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher