Author : Lawrence J. Vale
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 30,79 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674008984
Lawrence Vale explores the rise, fall, and redevelopment of three public housing projects in Boston. Vale looks at these projects from the perspectives of their low-income residents and assesses the contributions of the design professionals who helped to transform these once devastated places during the 1980s and 1990s.
Author : Nicholas Dagen Bloom
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 49,12 MB
Release : 2014-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0812201329
When it comes to large-scale public housing in the United States, the consensus for the past decades has been to let the wrecking balls fly. The demolition of infamous projects, such as Pruitt-Igoe in St. Louis and the towers of Cabrini-Green in Chicago, represents to most Americans the fate of all public housing. Yet one notable exception to this national tragedy remains. The New York City Housing Authority, America's largest public housing manager, still maintains over 400,000 tenants in its vast and well-run high-rise projects. While by no means utopian, New York City's public housing remains an acceptable and affordable option. The story of New York's success where so many other housing authorities faltered has been ignored for too long. Public Housing That Worked shows how New York's administrators, beginning in the 1930s, developed a rigorous system of public housing management that weathered a variety of social and political challenges. A key element in the long-term viability of New York's public housing has been the constant search for better methods in fields such as tenant selection, policing, renovation, community affairs, and landscape design. Nicholas Dagen Bloom presents the achievements that contradict the common wisdom that public housing projects are inherently unmanageable. By focusing on what worked, rather than on the conventional history of failure and blame, Bloom provides useful models for addressing the current crisis in affordable urban housing. Public Housing That Worked is essential reading for practitioners and scholars in the areas of public policy, urban history, planning, criminal justice, affordable housing management, social work, and urban affairs.
Author : Rachel G. Bratt
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 43,73 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781592134335
An examination of America's housing crisis by the leading progressive housing activists in the country.
Author : Hughes, David
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 13,67 MB
Release : 2002-09-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1861343485
Against a century-long trend of decline, the private rented sector grew significantly during the 1990s. This book explores why and looks at the consequences for tenants and landlords, as well as the wider implications for housing policy. Written by legal and policy experts, the book brings together, for the first time in over a decade, leading-edge research on the newly deregulated private rented sector. It provides background information about the recent history and development of the private rented sector and explores the changing nature of the sector. The book will be invaluable reading for law, public policy, housing and social policy students. Housing practitioners and policy makers will also find it a stimulating read.
Author : Ben Austen
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 22,68 MB
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0062235087
A Booklist Best Book of the Year: “The definitive history of the life and death of America’s most iconic housing project,” Chicago’s Cabrini-Green (David Simon, creator of The Wire). Built in the 1940s atop an infamous Italian slum, Cabrini-Green grew to twenty-three towers and a population of 20,000—all of it packed onto just seventy acres a few blocks from Chicago’s ritzy Gold Coast. Eventually, Cabrini-Green became synonymous with crime, squalor, and the failure of government. For the many who lived there, it was also a much-needed resource—it was home. By 2011, every high-rise had been razed, the island of black poverty engulfed by the white affluence around it, the families dispersed. In this novelistic and eye-opening narrative, Ben Austen tells the story of America’s public housing experiment and the changing fortunes of American cities. It is an account told movingly though the lives of residents who struggled to make a home for their families as powerful forces converged to accelerate the housing complex’s demise. Beautifully written, rich in detail, and full of moving portraits, High-Risers is a sweeping exploration of race, class, popular culture, and politics in modern America that brilliantly considers what went wrong in our nation’s effort to provide affordable housing to the poor—and what we can learn from those mistakes. “Compelling.” —Chicago Tribune “[A] fascinating narrative.” —Booklist (starred review) “A weighty and robust history of a people disappeared from their own community.” —Kirkus Reviews “Austen has masterfully woven together these deeply intimate stories of the residents at Cabrini against the backdrop of critical public policy decisions. Ultimately this book is about how as a country we acknowledge and deal with the very poor.” —Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here Named a Best Book of the Year by Mother Jones Nominated for the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence in Nonfiction; the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize; and the Chicago Review of Books Award
Author : Robert L. Schalock
Publisher : AAMR
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 10,98 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Intellectual disability
ISBN : 0940898861
Captures the challenging and controversial era between 1975-2000 that led the field of intellectual disability into an age of community acceptance and inclusion. This title includes chapters that focus themes such as public policy and health care.
Author : United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 21,33 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN :
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 35,22 MB
Release : 2000-11
Category :
ISBN : 0756701953
This consolidated report outlines what HUD delivered to America's communities in 1998. It also updates through 1999 HUD's activities in a number of priority areas and previews the coming year with highlights of HUD's 2000 budget. Shows that the resources HUD invested in communities and the steps HUD took to reinvent itself in 1998 have yielded significant results. Sections: HUD's performance, customer service, and a commitment to our mission; creating jobs and livable communities; affordable housing; expanding prosperity and economic opportunity; homeownership; fair housing; and headquarters and regional offices.
Author : Richard Plunz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 23,72 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780231062978
Since its emergence in the mid-nineteenth century as the nation's "metropolis," New York has faced the most challenging housing problems of any American city, but it has also led the nation in innovation and reform. Plunz traces New York's housing development from 1850 to the present, exploring the housing of all classes, discussing the development of types ranging from the single-family house to the high-rise apartment tower.
Author : Rae Dufty-Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 25,87 MB
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317121007
Over the last two decades new and significant demographic, economic, social and environmental changes and challenges have shaped the production and consumption of housing in Australia and the policy settings that attempt to guide these processes. These changes and challenges, as outlined in this book, are many and varied. While these issues are new they raise timeless questions around affordability, access, density, quantity, type and location of housing needed in Australian towns and cities. The studies presented in this text also provide a unique insight into a range of housing production, consumption and policy issues that, while based in Australia, have implications that go beyond this national context. For instance how do suburban-based societies adjust to the realities of aging populations, anthropogenic climate change and the significant implications such change has for housing? How has policy been translated and assembled in specific national contexts? Similarly, what are the significantly different policy settings the production and consumption of housing in a post-Global Financial Crisis period require? Framed in this way this book accounts for and responds to some of the key housing issues of the 21st century.
