Housing policy and vulnerable families in the inner city public housing in Harlem, New York City /
This book provides insights in how the lack of coherent social policy leads to the displacement of vulnerable low-income families in inner-city neighborhoods facing gentrification. First, it makes a case for how social policy by its racist setup has failed vulnerable families in the history of U.S....
| Main Author: | Zamzow, Brigitte. |
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| Other Authors: | SpringerLink (Online service) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cham :
Springer,
©2020.
Cham : [2020] |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (81 pages). |
| Series: |
SpringerBriefs in geography.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The Status Quo: Observations on a Gentrified Harlem
- 2. Rise and Fall: Harlem Renaissance and Ghettoization
- 3. Urban Poverty in Theory
- 4. Public Housing
- 5. Listening to Harlem: Tenants, Activists, Experts
- Conclusion: Understanding Harlem: The Making of a Mixed-Income Neighbo.