Climbing Mount Laurel : : The Struggle for Affordable Housing and Social Mobility in an American Suburb / / Elizabeth Derickson, David N. Kinsey, Rebecca Casciano, Len Albright, Douglas S. Massey.

Under the New Jersey State Constitution as interpreted by the State Supreme Court in 1975 and 1983, municipalities are required to use their zoning authority to create realistic opportunities for a fair share of affordable housing for low- and moderate-income households. Mount Laurel was the town at...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 5 halftones. 34 line illus. 28 tables. 1 map.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Tables
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Location Cubed: The Importance of Neighborhoods
  • Chapter 2. Suburban Showdown: The Mount Laurel Controversy
  • Chapter 3. Field of Dreams: Ethel Lawrence Homes Come to Mount Laurel
  • Chapter 4. Rhetoric and Reality: Monitoring Mount Laurel
  • Chapter 5. Neighborly Concerns: Effects on Surrounding Communities
  • Chapter 6. All Things Considered: Neighbors' Perceptions a Decade Later
  • Chapter 7. Greener Pastures: Moving to Tranquility
  • Chapter 8. Tenant Transitions: From Geographic to Social Mobility
  • Chapter 9. Affordable Housing: Suburban Solutions to Urban Problems
  • Appendices
  • References
  • Index