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List of contents
Preface Chapter 1 SOME PARAMETERS OF WELFARE The Growth of Welfare, Employment Opportunities and Welfare, Background of the Study, Housing's Linkage to Social Trauma Chapter 2 METHODOLOGY Chapter 3 WHO ARE THE WELFARE RECIPIENTS Chapter 4 THE WELFARE RECIPIENT'S HOUSING Chapter 5 THE WELFARE RECIPIENTS' ATTITUDE TOWARD HIS HOUSING AND ITS SETTING Chapter 6 HOPES AND FEARS OF WELFARE RECIPIENTS Chapter 7 THE DOLLARS OF WELFARE HOUSING: RENTS, OPERATING COSTS AND PROFITS Chapter 8 FINANCING THE REHABILITATION OF WELFARE HOUSING Chapter 9 POLICY IMPLICATIONS
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GEORGE S. STERNLIEB Professor of Urban Planning and Director of the Center for Urban Policy Research Livingston College, Rutgers University. BERNARD P. INDIK Professor of Social Work, Graduate School of Social Work, Rutgers University.
Summary
The basic ecology of human groups—the relationship between the distribution of population and material resources and the resultant social and cultural patterns—is a subject which has occasioned far more talk than down-to-earth research. Filling this gap, George Sternlieb and Bernard Indik consider one dimension of human ecology— the interplay between housing and outlook, between the physical realities of a dwelling unit and the attitudes and responses of its inhabitants. Their book, The Ecology of Welfare, presents a detailed description of the housing and housing problems of one special subgroup-New York City's welfare recipients in the 1970's.
