This book combines a critique of more than a century of housing reform policies, including public and other subsidized housing as well as exclusionary zoning, with the idea that simple low-cost housing–a poor side of town–helps those of modest means build financial assets and join in the local democratic process. It is more of a historical narrative than a straight policy book, however–telling stories of Jacob Riis, zoning reformer Lawrence Veiller, anti-reformer Jane Jacobs, housing developer William Levitt, and African American small homes advocate Rev. Johnny Ray Youngblood, as well as first-person accounts of onetime residents of neighborhoods such as Detroit’s Black Bottom who lost their homes and businesses to housing reform and urban renewal. This is a book with important policy implications–built on powerful, personal stories.
Author: Howard A. Husock
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 09/21/2021
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.1lbs
Size: 9.06h x 5.98w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9781641772020
Language: English
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