The Poor Side of Town (eBook)

And Why We Need It

Howard A. Husock (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
216 Seiten
Encounter Books (Verlag)
978-1-64177-203-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.9.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Black Bottom neighborhood Detroit • Department of Housing and Urban Development • history of housing reform • Homelessness • housing for immigrants and minority groups • housing policy makers • housing reform policy • How the Other Half Lives • HUD • Jacob Riis • Jane Jacobs • Lawrence Veiller • Levittown • low-income neighborhoods • Nehemiah project • New York tenements • Public housing • Rev. Johnny Ray Youngblood • The Death and Life of Great American Cities • Urban Policy • William Levitt • zoning laws
• ISBN-10: 1-64177-203-4 / 1641772034
• ISBN-13: 978-1-64177-203-7 / 9781641772037