Author: New York (State). Department of Social Services. SRO ProjectPublisher:
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Category : New York (NY)
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Problems and Policies Connected with the Displacement and Relocation of Residents of Single-room Occupancy Hotels
Author: New York (State). Department of Social Services. SRO ProjectPublisher:
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Category : New York (NY)
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Outposts of the Forgotten
Author: Harvey Alan SiegalPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351319221
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The single-room occupancy (SRO) tenements and welfare hotels located throughout New York City, but concentrated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, provided housing for many of society's troubled, marginal members in the late 1970s, when this book was originally published. The predominant population of these buildings was old, non-white, unemployed, disabled, and in poor health. What distinguished this community, however, was not that it is was part of a ghetto or slum, but that it was composed of poor people living amidst affluence, combining elements of both the law-abiding and criminal worlds. Institutionally, the SRO tenement world described in this book is seen as a half-way area between open society and the total institution. Without the support and control available in the SROs, confinement in a total institution would be a certainty for many of the residents. This book, a participant-observer journal as well as an ethnographic study, suggests an alternative to institutionalization. As Edward Sagarin notes in his preface, Siegal does not lack compassion for the sufferings of the people, but the focus is on the descriptions of their lives. Outposts of the Forgotten documents the circumstances of some of New York's forgotten residents.
Clearinghouse Review
Author: The Health and Social Service Needs of Elderly Residents of Single Room Occupancy (SRO) Hotels in the United States
Author: Beverly OvreboPublisher:
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Category : Hotels
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Urban Affairs Abstracts
Author: Code of Federal Regulations
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Special edition of the Federal Register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect ... with ancillaries.
Single Room Occupancy Hotels as a Partial Solution to the Issue of Homelessness
Author: Emma Louise Barnes GriswoldPublisher:
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Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Housing an Aging Society
Author: Robert J. NewcomerPublisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
ISBN: 9780442267889
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Living Downtown
Author: Paul E. GrothPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520068766
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
From the palace hotels of the elite to cheap lodging houses, residential hotels have been an element of American urban life for nearly two hundred years. Since 1870, however, they have been the target of an official war led by people whose concept of home does not include the hotel. Do these residences constitute an essential housing resource, or are they, as charged, a public nuisance? Living Downtown, the first comprehensive social and cultural history of life in American residential hotels, adds a much-needed historical perspective to this ongoing debate. Creatively combining evidence from biographies, buildings and urban neighborhoods, workplace records, and housing policies, Paul Groth provides a definitive analysis of life in four price-differentiated types of downtown residence. He demonstrates that these hotels have played a valuable socioeconomic role as home to both long-term residents and temporary laborers. Also, the convenience of hotels has made them the residence of choice for a surprising number of Americans, from hobo author Boxcar Bertha to Calvin Coolidge. Groth examines the social and cultural objections to hotel households and the increasing efforts to eliminate them, which have led to the seemingly irrational destruction of millions of such housing units since 1960. He argues convincingly that these efforts have been a leading contributor to urban homelessness. This highly original and timely work aims to expand the concept of the American home and to recast accepted notions about the relationships among urban life, architecture, and the public management of residential environments.
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