1st Edition

The Ecology of Welfare Housing and the Welfare Crisis in New York City

By George Sternlieb Copyright 1972
306 Pages
by Routledge

306 Pages
by Routledge

700 Pages
by Routledge

The basic ecology of human groups the relationship between the distribution of population and material resources and the resultant social and cultural patterns is a subject which has occasioned far more talk than down-to-earth research. Filling this gap, George Sternlieb and Bernard Indik consider one dimension of human ecology the interplay between housing and outlook, between the physical... Read more
Preface Chapter 1 SOME PARAMETERS OF WELFARE The Growth of Welfare, Employment Opportunities and Welfare, Background of the Study, Housing's Linkage to Social Trauma Chapter 2 METHODOLOGY Chapter 3 WHO ARE THE WELFARE RECIPIENTS Chapter 4 THE WELFARE RECIPIENT'S HOUSING Chapter 5 THE WELFARE RECIPIENTS' ATTITUDE TOWARD HIS HOUSING AND ITS SETTING Chapter 6 HOPES AND FEARS OF WELFARE RECIPIENTS Chapter 7 THE DOLLARS OF WELFARE HOUSING: RENTS, OPERATING COSTS AND PROFITS Chapter 8 FINANCING THE REHABILITATION OF WELFARE HOUSING Chapter 9 POLICY IMPLICATIONS

Biography

GEORGE S. STERNLIEB Professor of Urban Planning and Director of the Center for Urban Policy Research Livingston College, Rutgers University. BERNARD P. INDIK Professor of Social Work, Graduate School of Social Work, Rutgers University.