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New York City housing advocate
Patrick Markee’s new book,
"Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded Age,"
looks at homelessness through the lens of housing affordability.
Homelessness, which affects millions across the United States,
“has roots in structural economic changes, right-wing economic policies and systemic racism,”
explains Markee.
“There’s a reason that other advanced capitalist countries in this world … don’t have the levels…

Homelessness Is About Affordability: Author Patrick Markee on the Housing Crisis in “New Gilded Age”
New York City housing advocate Patrick Markee’s new book, Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded Age, looks at homelessness through the lens of housing affordability. Homelessness, which affects millions across the United States, “has roots in structural economic changes, right-wing economic policies and systemic racism,” explains Markee. “There’s a reason that other advanced capitalist countries in this world … don’t have the levels of homelessness that we have, and that’s b…

There’s an argument to be made that one can draw a straight line from
Andrew Johnson’s amnesty to Confederates
to the devastating brutality of the ICE raids in blue cities across the country.
Maybe that sounds like a stretch, but
💥we have struggled to hold the powerful accountable for their crimes,
from the Revolution through the Civil War,
through the Gilded Age
to the failure to prosecute Trump after January 6th.
⭐️We can no longer fail to ho…