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Author : Nicholas Dagen
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 197373088X
Public Housing Myths: Perception, Reality, and Social Policy By Nicholas Dagen
Author : Nicholas Dagen Bloom,Fritz Umbach,Lawrence J. Vale
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780801456251
Popular opinion holds that public housing is a failure; so what more needs to be said about seventy-five years of dashed hopes and destructive policies? Over the past decade, however, historians and social scientists have quietly exploded the common wisdom about public housing. Public Housing Myths pulls together these fresh perspectives and unexpected findings into a single volume to provide an updated, panoramic view of public housing. With eleven chapters by prominent scholars, the collection not only covers a groundbreaking range of public housing issues transnationally but also does so in a revisionist and provocative manner. With students in mind, Public Housing Myths is organized thematically around popular preconceptions and myths about the policies surrounding big city public housing, the places themselves, and the people who call them home. The authors challenge narratives of inevitable decline, architectural determinism, and rampant criminality that have shaped earlier accounts and still dominate public perception.
Author : Nathan Straus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Housing
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033775854
Author : Edward G. Goetz
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780801467547
Public housing was an integral part of the New Deal, as the federal government funded public works to generate economic activity and offer material support to families made destitute by the Great Depression, and it remained a major element of urban policy in subsequent decades. As chronicled in New Deal Ruins, however, housing policy since the 1990s has turned to the demolition of public housing in favor of subsidized units in mixed-income communities and the use of tenant-based vouchers rather than direct housing subsidies. While these policies, articulated in the HOPE VI program begun in 1992, aimed to improve the social and economic conditions of urban residents, the results have been quite different. As Edward G. Goetz shows, hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced and there has been a loss of more than 250,000 permanently affordable residential units. Goetz offers a critical analysis of the nationwide effort to dismantle public housing by focusing on the impact of policy changes in three cities: Atlanta, Chicago, and New Orleans.Goetz shows how this transformation is related to pressures of gentrification and the enduring influence of race in American cities. African Americans have been disproportionately affected by this policy shift; it is the cities in which public housing is most closely identified with minorities that have been the most aggressive in removing units. Goetz convincingly refutes myths about the supposed failure of public housing. He offers an evidence-based argument for renewed investment in public housing to accompany housing choice initiatives as a model for innovative and equitable housing policy.
Author : Peter Marcuse,David Madden
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781784783563
In every major city in the world there is a housing crisis. How did this happen and what can we do about it? Everyone needs and deserves housing. But today our homes are being transformed into commodities, making the inequalities of the city ever more acute. Profit has become more important than social need. The poor are forced to pay more for worse housing. Communities are faced with the violence of displacement and gentrification. And the benefits of decent housing are only available for those who can afford it. In Defense of Housing is the definitive statement on this crisis from leading urban planner Peter Marcuse and sociologist David Madden. They look at the causes and consequences of the housing problem and detail the need for progressive alternatives. The housing crisis cannot be solved by minor policy shifts, they argue. Rather, the housing crisis has deep political and economic roots—and therefore requires a radical response.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Public housing
ISBN : UCBK:C055103204
Author : Audrey Petty
Publisher : McSweeney's
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781940450056
In the gripping first-person accounts of High Rise Stories, former residents of Chicago’s iconic public housing projects describe life in the now-demolished high-rises. These stories of community, displacement, and poverty in the wake of gentrification give voice to those who have long been ignored, but whose hopes and struggles exist firmly at the heart of our national identity.
Author : M. Nolan Gray
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781642832549
It's time for America to move beyond zoning, argues city planner M. Nolan Gray in Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It. With lively explanations, Gray shows why zoning abolition is a necessary--if not sufficient--condition for building more affordable, vibrant, equitable, and sustainable cities. Gray lays the groundwork for this ambitious cause by clearing up common misconceptions about how American cities regulate growth and examining four contemporary critiques of zoning (its role in increasing housing costs, restricting growth in our most productive cities, institutionalizing racial and economic segregation, and mandating sprawl). He sets out some of the efforts currently underway to reform zoning and charts how land-use regulation might work in the post-zoning American city. Arbitrary Lines is an invitation to rethink the rules that will continue to shape American life--where we may live or work, who we may encounter, how we may travel. If the task seems daunting, the good news is that we have nowhere to go but up
Author : Nicholas Dagen Bloom,Matthew Gordon Lasner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780691207056
A richly illustrated history of below-market housing in New York, from the 1920s to today A colorful portrait of the people, places, and policies that have helped make New York City livable, Affordable Housing in New York is a comprehensive, authoritative, and richly illustrated history of the city's public and middle-income housing from the 1920s to today. Plans, models, archival photos, and newly commissioned portraits of buildings and tenants by sociologist and photographer David Schalliol put the efforts of the past century into context, and the book also looks ahead to future prospects for below-market subsidized housing. A dynamic account of an evolving city, Affordable Housing in New York is essential reading for understanding and advancing debates about how to enable future generations to call New York home.
Author : Steven Kull,I M. Destler
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815791380
Do American policymakers really know what the American public wants in U.S. foreign policy? Through extensive interviews with members of the policy community, the authors reveal a pervasive belief—especially in Congress—that, in the wake of the cold war, the public is showing a new isolationism: opposition to foreign aid, hostility to the United Nations, and aversion to contributing U.S. troops to peacekeeping operations. This view of the public has in turn had a significant impact on U.S. foreign policy. However, through a comprehensive review of polling data, as well as focus groups, the authors show that all these beliefs about the public are myths. The public does complain that the United States is playing the role of dominant world leader more than it should, but this does not lead to a desire to withdraw. Instead people prefer to share responsibility with other nations, particularly through the UN. The authors offer explanations of how such a misperception can occur and suggest ways to improve communication between the public and policymakers, including better presentation of polling data and more attention by practitioners to a wider public.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PSU:000019982434
Author : Matthew Thompson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789621082
Reconstructing Public Housing unearths Liverpool's hidden history of radical alternatives to municipal housing development and builds a vision of how we might reconstruct public housing on more democratic and cooperative foundations. In this critical social history, Matthew Thompson brings to light how and why this remarkable city became host to two pioneering social movements in collective housing and urban regeneration experimentation. In the 1970s, Liverpool produced one of Britain's largest, most democratic and socially innovative housing co-op movements, including the country's first new-build co-op to be designed, developed and owned by its member-residents. Four decades later, in some of the very same neighbourhoods, several campaigns for urban community land trusts are growing from the grassroots - including the first ever architectural or housing project to be nominated for and win, in 2015, the artworld's coveted Turner Prize. Thompson traces the connections between these movements; how they were shaped by, and in turn transformed, the politics, economics, culture and urbanism of Liverpool. Drawing on theories of capitalism and cooperativism, property and commons, institutional change and urban transformation, Thompson reconsiders Engels' housing question, reflecting on how collective alternatives work in, against and beyond the state and capital, in often surprising and contradictory ways.
Author : Tunstall, Becky
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781447351368
Drawing on a unique archive spanning the lifetime of twenty council estate projects in the UK and using hundreds of resident voices, this book reveals the secrets of council housing’s failures and successes, and the reasons for them. Bringing to light the complex variety of the lived experiences of residents, it shows how estate pathways were predetermined by factors such as location, design and date, as well as by their local and national social, economic and political contexts. The book highlights what can be learned from some of the successes of less successful housing projects and provides lessons for building sustainable communities in the twenty-first century.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : The Homeless Hub
Page : 781 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780772714756
Author : Milton Friedman,Friedrich August Hayek,Basil Kalymon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001901334
