Homing Devices The Poor as Targets of Public Housing Policy and Practice,9780739114605

Homing Devices The Poor as Targets of Public Housing Policy and Practice

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ISBN13: 9780739114605
ISBN10: 0739114603
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-04-27
Publisher(s): Lexington Books
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Summary

Homing Devices is a collection of ethnographies that address the central problem affecting not only the United States but also other developed and developing nations around the globe-affordable housing. These ethnographies cut across national and cultural borders, offering a diverse look at housing policies and practices as well as addressing the problems associated with providing or obtaining affordable housing.

Table of Contents

Figures ix
Tables ix
Preface xiii
Introduction: No Place Like Home, No Time Like the Present
Mark Schuller and marilyn m. thomas-houston
1(20)
Part 1 Zeroing (in on) the Powerless: Human Rights and Housing
1 Re-Envisioning Public Housing: HOPE VI and the U.S. Federal Government's Role in Public Housing Provision
Diane K. Levy
21(18)
2 Lead, Arsenic, PAHs, and the Relocation of Home: Government vs. Community
Elizabeth Beaton
39(20)
Part 2 Devices of Power: Governing through Housing
3 Separate and Unequal: Housing Policy in Action on the Periphery of Our Nation's Capital
Sherri Lawson Clark
59(22)
4 "We Came With Truth": Black Women's Struggles against Public Housing Policy
Cheryl Rodriguez
81(20)
Part 3 Homing In: Power of the State to Define Reality
5 Building the Glass Box: Developing Public Housing in Suburban Areas
Edward G. Goetz
101(18)
6 Donning The Emperor's New Clothes?: Consequences of Buying into the Rhetoric of Development
marilyn m. thomas-houston
119(22)
Part 4 More than Targets: Marginalized People Changing Policy
7 "We Are the First Youth": Participatory Planning in Transitional Housing for Suburban Homeless Youth
Rae Bridgman
141(18)
7 Jamming the Meatgrinder World: Lessons Learned from Tenants Organizing in St. Paul
Mark Schuller
159(22)
9 Expansion and Exclusion in Hong Kong's Squatter Resettlement Program: The Ratchet of Exclusion into Temporary and Interim Housing
Alan Smart and Ernest Chui
181(18)
Appendix: Housing Advocacy Organizations 199(2)
Bibliography 201(24)
Index 225(6)
About the Contributors 231

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