Homeless: Poverty and Place in Urban America

by Ella Howard

The homeless have the legal right to exist in modern American cities, yet antihomeless 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.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812244729
• ISBN13: 9780812244724
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"