306 Pages
by
Routledge
305 Pages
by
Routledge
305 Pages
by
Routledge
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Public housing is at a crossroads, buffeted by demographic, economic, and political winds. Privatization, rehabilitation, demolition, rent certificates and vouchers, tenant management, tenant ownership, resident empowerment: these are just some of the current and proposed policy initiatives that could change the face of urban public housing.In this book the nation's foremost housing policy experts... Read more
I: Historical Perspectives; 1: High Ambitions: The Past and Future of American Low-Income Housing Policy; 2: Mainstreaming Public Housing; II: Social Issues; 3: The Meanings of Resident Empowerment; 4: Assisted Living in Public Housing; III: Design Issues; 5: Changing Values in U.S. Public Housing Policy and Design; 6: An Evaluation of Robert Pitts Plaza; IV: Comprehensive Approaches to Public Housing Revitalization; 7: Emerging Strategies for Revitalizing Public Housing Communities; 8: Public Housing Redevelopment: Seven Kinds of Success; V: Future Directions; 9: Successes, Failures, and Prospects for Public Housing Policy in the United Kingdom; 10: New Directions for Federally Assited Housing; 11: Gautreaux: Baby Steps to Opportunity; VI: Epilogue; 12: Public Housing—The Next Sixty Years?
Biography
David Varady
