1st Edition
Poor and Homeless in the Sunshine State Down and Out in Theme Park Nation
By James Wright
Copyright 2007
335 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
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A place like Orlando, Florida is not transformed from swampland to sprawling metropolis through Peter Pan-like flights of fancy, but through theme park expansions requiring developmental schemes that are tough minded and often worsen relationships between the wealthy and the poor. The homeless arrive with their own hopes and illusions, which are soon shattered. The rest of the local population... Read more
1: In the Shadow of the Mouse: Central Florida as Myth, Metaphor, and Reality; 2: Poverty in Central Florida: Work, Wages, and Well-being among Low and Moderate Income Families 1; 3: One Thousand Homeless Men; 4: Transients and Frequent Flyers: Patterns of Shelter Utilization and Their Implications for Social Policy; 5: It’s Not Who We Are: Realities of Homelessness for Women and Children 1; 6: Shelter Life: Risk or Respite?; 7: Lovely, Dark, and Deep: Central Florida’s Woods People 1; 8: The Drunk, the Addicted, and the Just Plain Shiftless? 1; 9: “No Place for Sissies”: The Elderly Homeless 1; 10: Mean as a Snake, Crazy as a Shithouse Rat: Public Perceptions of the Homeless 1; 11: The Kindness of Strangers: Volunteers, Volunteerism, and the Homeless; 12: A Tale of Two Cities: Homeless Politics and Services in Miami and Orlando; 13: What Have We Learned?
Biography
James Wright
