Derelict Paradise: Homelessness and Urban Development in Cleveland, Ohio

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Searching for 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. Slightly than being attributable to the illnesses and inadequacies of the unhoused themselves, this can be a product of both structural and political dynamics shaping the city. Kerr locates the origins of lately’s shelter system in the era that followed the massive railroad rebellions of 1877. From that period through the Great Depression, business and political leaders sought to develop into downtown Cleveland to their own advantage. As they focused on bringing business travelers and tourists to the city and beckoned upper-source of revenue residents to go back to its center, they demolished two downtown working-class neighborhoods and institutionalized a shelter system to contain and keep an eye on the unhoused and unemployed. The precedents from this period informed the strategies of the post–World War II urban renewal era as the “new urbanism” of the late twentieth century. The efforts of the city’s elites have not gone uncontested. Kerr documents a wealthy history of opposition by people at the margins of whose organized resistance and on a regular basis survival strategies have undermined the grand plans crafted by the powerful and transformed the institutions designed to constrain the lives of the homeless.

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