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New Deal Ruins: Race, Economic Justice, and Public Housing Policy
Edward G. Goetz
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Description for New Deal Ruins: Race, Economic Justice, and Public Housing Policy
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 20, 10 black & white halftones, 3 maps, 5 tables, 1 charts, 1 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
Public housing was an integral part of the New Deal, as the federal government funded public works to generate economic activity and offer material support to families made destitute by the Great Depression, and it remained a major element of urban policy in subsequent decades. As chronicled in New Deal Ruins, however, housing policy since the 1990s has turned to the demolition of public housing in favor of subsidized units in mixed-income communities and the use of tenant-based vouchers rather than direct housing subsidies. While these policies, articulated in the HOPE VI program begun in 1992, aimed to improve the ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801478284
SKU
V9780801478284
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About Edward G. Goetz
Edward G. Goetz is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and Director of the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Clearing the Way: Deconcentrating the Poor in Urban America and Shelter Burden: Local Politics and Progressive Housing Policy and coeditor of The New Localism: Comparative Urban Politics in a Global ... Read more
Reviews for New Deal Ruins: Race, Economic Justice, and Public Housing Policy
"New Deal Ruinsprovides an extensivley researched accounting of how the public housing program has arrived at this point, and a necessary primer for understanding the program's current circumstances and rather dim prospects... And as with his previous books, Goetz's latest work belongs on the bookshelves of any scholar of U.S. low-income housing policy." — James Hanlon, J Hous and the ... Read more