How It Works - Recovering Citizens in Post-Welfare Philadelphia

Informationen zum Autor Robert P. Fairbanks II is assistant professor in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. Klappentext Of the some sixty thousand vacant properties in Philadelphia! half of them are abandoned row houses. Street-level entrepreneurs re purposing hundreds of these empty houses as facilities for recovering addicts and alcoholics. This book presents a study of this recovery house movement and its place in the new urban order wrought by welfare reform. Zusammenfassung Of the some sixty thousand vacant properties in Philadelphia! half of them are abandoned row houses. Street-level entrepreneurs re purposing hundreds of these empty houses as facilities for recovering addicts and alcoholics. This book presents a study of this recovery house movement and its place in the new urban order wrought by welfare reform.

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• Authors: Robert P. Fairbanks, FAIRBANKS ROBERT P, Fairbanks Robert P.
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2009
• EAN: 9780226234090
• ISBN: 978-0-226-23409-0
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Pennsylvania, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, Drug & substance abuse: social aspects, Drugs and alcohol: social aspects