Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Community DevelopmentPublisher:
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Category : Public housing
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Tenant Management of Public Housing
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Community DevelopmentPublisher:
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Category : Public housing
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Public Housing That Worked
Author: Nicholas Dagen BloomPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812201329
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
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.
Housing Choice
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Category : Federal aid to housing
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Managing Affordable Housing
Author: Bennett L. HechtPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This book shows how to implement strategies for successfully managing affordable housing. It is the first book to combine property management with economic development--a new strategy that uses the resources of housing developments to create more stable communities.
Diverging Space for Deviants
Author: Akira Drake RodriguezPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820359505
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
This book explores the often-overlooked positive role of public housing in facilitating social movements and activism. Taking a political, social, and spatial perspective, the author offers Atlanta as a case study. Akira Drake Rodriguez shows that the decline in support for public housing, often touted as a positive (neoliberal) development, has negative consequences for social justice and nascent activism, especially among Black women. Urban revitalization policies target public housing residents by demolishing public housing towers and dispersing poor (Black) residents into new, deconcentrated spaces in the city via housing choice vouchers and other housing-based tools of economic and urban development. Diverging Space for Deviants establishes alternative functions for public housing developments that would necessitate their existence in any city. In addition to providing affordable housing for low-income residents—a necessity as wealth inequality in cities increases—public housing developments function as a necessary political space in the city, one of the last remaining frontiers for citizens to engage in inclusive political activity and make claims on the changing face of the state.
Resident Rights and Responsibilities
Author: Public Housing and the Legacy of Segregation
Author: Margery Austin TurnerPublisher: The Urban Insitute
ISBN: 9780877667551
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
For the past two decades the United States has been transforming distressed public housing communities, with three ambitious goals: replace distressed developments with healthy mixed-income communities; help residents relocate to affordable housing, often in the private market; and empower former public housing families toward economic self-sufficiency. The transformation has focused on deconcentrating poverty, but not on the underlying role of racial segregation in creating these distressed communities. In Public Housing and the Legacy of Segregation, scholars and public housing officials assess whether--and how--public housing policies can simultaneously address the problems of poverty and race.
Low-rent Housing Homeownership Opportunities
Author: United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Office of Housing ManagementPublisher:
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Category : Home ownership
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
When Public Housing was Paradise
Author: J. S. FuerstPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252072130
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Collecting seventy-nine oral histories from former public housing residents and staff, J. S. Fuerst's When Public Housing Was Paradise is a powerful testament to the fact that well-designed, well-managed low-rent housing has worked, as well as a demonstration of how it could be made to work again. J. S. Fuerst has been involved with public housing in Chicago for more than half a century. He retired from Loyola University, where he was a professor of social welfare policy. He was the editor of Public Housing in Europe and America. D. Bradford Hunt is an assistant professor of social science at Roosevelt University. John Hope Franklin is James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History at Duke University. He has served as president of the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and many more.
Compliance in HOME Rental Projects
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Category : Federal aid to housing
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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