Public Housing Myths : : Perception, Reality, and Social Policy / / ed. by Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Fritz Umbach, Lawrence J. Vale.
Popular opinion holds that public housing is a failure; so what more needs to be said about seventy-five years of dashed hopes and destructive policies? Over the past decade, however, historians and social scientists have quietly exploded the common wisdom about public housing. Public Housing Myths...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 22 halftones, 7 tables, 6 charts |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- I. Places
- Myth #1. Public Housing Stands Alone
- Myth #2. Modernist Architecture Failed Public Housing
- Myth #3. Public Housing Breeds Crime
- Myth #4. High-Rise Public Housing is Unmanageable
- II. Policy
- Myth #5. Public Housing Ended in Failure during the 1970s
- Myth #6. Mixed-Income Redevelopment is the Only Way to Fix Failed Public Housing
- Myth #7. Only Immigrants Still Live in European Public Housing
- Myth #8. Public Housing Is Only for Poor People
- III. People
- Myth #9. Public Housing Residents Hate the Police
- Myth #10. Public Housing Tenants Are Powerless
- Myth #11. Tenants Did Not Invest in Public Housing
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Contributor Biographies
- Index