David Wagner is a professor of sociology and social work at the University of Southern Maine, in Portland, Maine. He is the author of six books, including the C. Wright Mills Award-winning Checkerboard Square: Culture and Resistance in a Homeless Community, and was a co-founder of the group POWER (Portland Organization to Win Economic Rights).
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Home Sweet Skid Row
Poor Los Angelenos fight gentrification and police abuse.
David Wagner