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Homing Devices
The Poor as Targets of Public Housing Policy and Practice
Homing Devices
The Poor as Targets of Public Housing Policy and Practice
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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. The studies incorporate perspectives of both policymakers and recipients and as such provide comparative insight into public housing policy programs and practices based on qualitative research. The collected experts provide an analysis of such problems as displacement, resettlement, policy implementation, collaborative planning, exclusionary practices, environmental racism, and silencing the voices of dissent. Editors Schuller and thomas-houston have assembled a strong volume that offers a fresh approach to discussing policy while bringing the particular problem of housing to the forefront in a way that will appeal to scholars of anthropology and social science, governmental policy departments, and activists from the general public across the nation.
Table of Contents
Part 2 Zeroing (in on) the Powerless: Human Rights and Housing
Chapter 3 Re-Envisioning Public Housing: HOPE VI and the U.S. Federal Government's Role in Public Housing Provision
Chapter 4 Lead, Arsenic, PAHs, and the Relocation of Home
Part 5 Devices of Power: Governing Through Housing
Chapter 6 Separate and Unequal: Housing Policy in Action on the Periphery of Our Nation's Capital
Chapter 7 "We Came With Truth": Black Women's Struggles Against Public Housing Policy
Part 8 Homing In: Power of the State to Define Reality
Chapter 9 Building the Glass Box: Developing Public Housing in Suburban Areas
Chapter 10 The Emporer's New Clothes: The Rhetoric of Empowerment and the Reality of Relocation
Part 11 More than Targets: Marginal People Changing Policy
Chapter 12 'We are the First Youth': Participatory Planning in Transitional Housing from Suburban Homeless Youth
Chapter 13 Jamming the Meatgrinder World: Lessons Learned from the Tenants Organizing in St. Paul
Chapter 14 Expansion and Exclusion in Hong Kong's Squatter Resettlement Program: The Ratchet of Exclusion into Temporary and Interim Housing
Product details
| Published | 27 Apr 2006 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 248 |
| ISBN | 9780739114605 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Dimensions | 229 x 152 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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