New Directions in Urban Public Housing

List of contents

I: Historical Perspectives; 1: High Ambitions: The Past and Future of American Low-Income Housing Policy; 2: Mainstreaming Public Housing; II: Social Issues; 3: The Meanings of Resident Empowerment; 4: Assisted Living in Public Housing; III: Design Issues; 5: Changing Values in U.S. Public Housing Policy and Design; 6: An Evaluation of Robert Pitts Plaza; IV: Comprehensive Approaches to Public Housing Revitalization; 7: Emerging Strategies for Revitalizing Public Housing Communities; 8: Public Housing Redevelopment: Seven Kinds of Success; V: Future Directions; 9: Successes, Failures, and Prospects for Public Housing Policy in the United Kingdom; 10: New Directions for Federally Assited Housing; 11: Gautreaux: Baby Steps to Opportunity; VI: Epilogue; 12: Public Housing—The Next Sixty Years?

About the author

David Varady

Summary

Public housing is at a crossroads, buffeted by demographic, economic, and political winds

Product details

• Authors: David Varady
• Assisted by: Wolfgang F. E. Preiser (Editor), Francis P. Russell (Editor), David Varady (Editor), David P. Varady (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138528802
• ISBN: 978-1-138-52880-2
• No. of pages: 305
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Politics & government, Politics and government