The Poor Side of Town
Howard A. Husock
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
This book combines a critique of more than a century of housing reform policies, including public and other subsidized housing as well as exclusionary zoning, with the idea that simple low-cost housing—a poor side of town—helps those of modest means build financial assets and join in the local democratic process. It is more of a historical narrative than a straight policy book, however—telling stories of Jacob Riis, zoning reformer Lawrence Veiller, anti-reformer Jane Jacobs, housing developer William Levitt, and African American small homes advocate Rev. Johnny Ray Youngblood, as well as first-person accounts of onetime residents of neighborhoods such as Detroit’s Black Bottom who lost their homes and businesses to housing reform and urban renewal. This is a book with important policy implications—built on powerful, personal stories.
Kundenbewertungen
housing policy makers, Jane Jacobs, homelessness, Jacob Riis, housing reform policy, housing for immigrants and minority groups, low-income neighborhoods, Levittown, New York tenements, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, William Levitt, history of housing reform, urban policy, zoning laws, How the Other Half Lives, public housing, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Nehemiah project, Rev. Johnny Ray Youngblood, Black Bottom neighborhood Detroit, HUD, Lawrence Veiller