The Voucher Promise (eBook)

"Section 8" and the Fate of an American Neighborhood

Eva Rosen (Autor)

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2020
352 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18950-5 (ISBN)

Infos

"e;A must-read for anyone interested in solutions to America's housing crisis."e;-Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American CityAn in-depth look at America's largest rental assistance program and how it shapes the lives of residents in one low-income Baltimore neighborhoodHousing vouchers are a cornerstone of US federal housing policy, offering aid to more than two million households. Vouchers are meant to provide the poor with increased choice in the private rental marketplace, enabling access to safe neighborhoods with good schools and higher-paying jobs. But do they?The Voucher Promise examines the Housing Choice Voucher Program, colloquially known as "e;Section 8,"e; and how it shapes the lives of families living in a Baltimore neighborhood called Park Heights. Eva Rosen tells stories about the daily lives of homeowners, voucher holders, renters who receive no housing assistance, and the landlords who provide housing. While vouchers are a powerful tool with great promise, she demonstrates how the housing policy can replicate the very inequalities it has the power to solve.Rosen spent more than a year living in Park Heights, sitting on front stoops, getting to know families, accompanying them on housing searches, speaking to landlords, and learning about the neighborhood's history. Voucher holders disproportionately end up in this area despite rampant unemployment, drugs, crime, and abandoned housing. Exploring why they are unable to relocate to other neighborhoods, Rosen illustrates the challenges in obtaining vouchers and the difficulties faced by recipients in using them when and where they want to. Yet, despite the program's real shortcomings, she argues that vouchers offer basic stability for families and should remain integral to solutions for the nation's housing crisis.Delving into the connections between safe, affordable housing and social mobility, The Voucher Promise investigates the profound benefits and formidable obstacles involved in housing America's poor.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 15 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Baurecht (privat)
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Affordable Housing • Air Pollution • Alice Goffman • alley • amenity • American poverty • americans • Apartment • Assault • Astronomy • Atlas.ti • Austerity • Barry Barish • Basement • Bathroom • Bedroom • Ben Austin • Ben Carson • Blockbusting • Boiling • Career • Center on Budget and Policy Priorities • Chemical composition • community organization • Community Reinvestment Act • Concentrated poverty • Conceptual Design • Craigslist • credit score • Crime • Criminology • deindustrialization • diaper • disadvantage • disadvantaged • Disinvestment • distrust • Down, Out, and Under Arrest • Each Way • Employment • entryway • Esther Sullivan • ethnography • evicted • eviction • extreme poverty • Fair Housing Act • fair market rent • Fascinator • FMR • Forrest Stuart • Freddie Gray • Graduate school • grocery store • HCVP • High-Risers • Homelessness • homeless shelter • Hope VI • horizontal immobility • Household • Housing • Housing authority • Housing discrimination (United States) • housing inequality • housing insecurity • housing projects • Housing Unit • Housing voucher • HUD • Inclusionary zoning • income • Independent living • Informal Organization • Institution • interaction • job interview • Jocelyn Bell Burnell • johns hopkins • joseph stalin • Kaunas • kennel • Kerner Commission • Landlord • laundry • Law enforcement • Layaway • Laziness • Life Expectancy • Lighting • LIGO • liquor store • Livelihood • Local community • Long-term resident (European Union) • Louisiana State University • low-income housing • Low-Income Housing Tax Credit • low-income renters • low-rise • Lush (company) • Maintenance, repair, and operations • Manufactured Insecurity • Market rate • mathematician • Mathematics • Matthew Desmond • milky way • month • mortgage loan • Moving to Opportunity • mug shot • My Child • neighborhood association • New Place • Newton's law of universal gravitation • New Ventures • nuisance • Nursing home care • Occupancy • on the run • Opioid • Ownership (psychology) • paper bag • Paradigm Shift • parking lot • Payment • Personal life • Persuasion • PHA • Philology • Pocono Mountains • Police Misconduct • Policy • Polishing • poor neighborhoods • Poverty • poverty in the United States • predation • predatory lending • Prejudice • Presumption (canon law) • Property Management • Property Manager • Proportion (architecture) • Pruitt–Igoe • Public housing • public housing authority • Public Service • Race card • Racial segregation • Real estate appraisal • Redevelopment • redlining • refrigerator • Rent Ceiling • renting • rent subsidies • residential mobility • Richard Rothstein • Role • Role model • Royal Society University Research Fellowship • Rust Belt • safety net • Sanitation • Scarcity • Scholarship • Section 8 (housing) • security deposit • security guard • Selfishness • senior center • shortage • Sinai Hospital • Single-family detached home • Slum • slumlords • Snack • Social capital • Social Isolation • social networking service • Social organization • Social Policy • social safety net • Sociology • spokesperson • Stellar Structure • strip search • structural functionalism • Subsidized Housing • Subsidy • suburb • Sudhir Venkatesh • Summer School • Supercomputer • supermarket • Supermassive Black Hole • Symbolic boundaries • Telescoping (rail cars) • Tenement • The Color of Law • The Philadelphia Negro • Thesis • The Wire • Trade Union • transitional housing • Tuberculosis • Unemployment • UNESCO • Urban Affairs • Urban Development • urbanization • Urban renewal • Urban sociology • urban studies • Usage • Vice President • Violent crime • Voucher • wayfinding • Wealth • Website • welfare • welfare queen • white flight • William Julius Wilson • year
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18950-1 / 0691189501
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18950-5 / 9780691189505