Poor and Homeless in the Sunshine State - Down and Out in Theme Park Nation

Down and Out in Theme Park Nation.

List of contents

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?

About the author

James Wright

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Amy M. Donley, James Wright, Jawes D. Wright
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.07.2017
• EAN: 9781138513426
• ISBN: 978-1-138-51342-6
• No. of pages: 335
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, Poverty & unemployment, Housing & homelessness, Poverty and precarity, Housing and homelessness