More Than Shelter - Activism and Community in San Francisco Public Housing

Klappentext By looking closely at three public housing projects in San Francisco! Amy L. Howard brings to light the dramatic measures tenants have taken to create communities that mattered to them. These stories challenge assumptions about public housing and its tenants-and make way for a broader! more productive and inclusive vision of the public housing program in the United States. Zusammenfassung By looking closely at three public housing projects in San Francisco, Amy L. Howard brings to light the dramatic measures tenants have taken to create communities that mattered to them. These stories challenge assumptions about public housing and its tenants—and make way for a broader, more productive and inclusive vision of the public housing program in the United States.

Product details

• Authors: Howard, Amy L. Howard, Amy Lynne Howard
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2014
• EAN: 9780816665815
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-6581-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Quadrant Book; Quadrant Books (Hardcover); A Quadrant Book; A Quadrant Book
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research