The Poor Side of Town

And Why We Need It

Howard A. Husock (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

2021
Encounter Books,USA (Verlag)
978-1-64177-202-0 (ISBN)

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This book combines a critique of more than a century of housing reform policies, including public and other subsidized housing as well as exclusionary zoning, with the idea that simple low-cost housing—a poor side of town—helps those of modest means build financial assets and join in the local democratic process. It is more of a historical narrative than a straight policy book, however—telling stories of Jacob Riis, zoning reformer Lawrence Veiller, anti-reformer Jane Jacobs, housing developer William Levitt, and African American small homes advocate Rev. Johnny Ray Youngblood, as well as first-person accounts of onetime residents of neighborhoods such as Detroit’s Black Bottom who lost their homes and businesses to housing reform and urban renewal. This is a book with important policy implications—built on powerful, personal stories.

Howard Husock is an Adjunct Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute as well as a Contributing Editor to City Journal. From 2006-2019 he served as Vice-President, Research and Publications at the Manhattan Institute; from 1987-2006 he was the Director, of Case Studies in Public Policy and Management at Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. His work at WGBH-TV, Boston (1978-87) won a National News and Documentary Emmy Award, New England Emmy awards, and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for Television. He is the author of America's Trillion-Dollar Housing Policy Mistake: The Failure of American Housing Policy (Ivan R. Dee, 2003); Philanthropy Under Fire (Encounter, 2015) and Who Killed Civil Society? (Encounter, 2019). He is married to the ceramic artist Robin Henschel.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.08.2021
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Technik ► Bauwesen
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Rechnungswesen / Bilanzen
	Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Spezielle Betriebswirtschaftslehre ► Immobilienwirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-64177-202-6 / 1641772026
ISBN-13	978-1-64177-202-0 / 9781641772020
Zustand	Neuware