Homing devices : the poor as targets of public housing policy and practice / edited by marilyn m. thomas-houston and Mark Schuller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thomas-Houston, Marilyn M.

Schuller, Mark, 1973-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Housing policy--Congresses.

Housing policy.

Public housing--Congresses.

Public housing.

Low-income housing--Government policy--Congresses.

Low-income housing.

Low-income housing--Government policy.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xiv, 234 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 p.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2006]

Summary:

Homing Devices is a collection of ethnographies that address the central problem affecting not only the United States but also other developed and developing nations around the globe-affordable housing. These ethnographies cut across national and cultural borders, offering a diverse look at housing policies and practices as well as addressing the problems associated with providing or obtaining affordable housing. The studies incorporate perspectives of both policymakers and recipients and, as such, provide comparative insight into public housing policy programs and practices based on qualitative research. The collected experts provide analyses of such problems as displacement, resettlement, policy implementation, collaborative planning, exclusionary practices, environmental racism, and silencing the voices of dissent. Editors thomas-houston and Schuller have assembled a strong volume that offers a fresh approach to discussing policy while bringing the particular problem of housing to the forefront in a way that will appeal to scholars of anthropology and social science, governmental policy departments, and activists from the general public across the nation.

Contents:

Introduction: No Place Like Home, No Time Like the Present / Mark Schuller, Marilyn M. Thomas-Houston 1

Part 1 Zeroing (in on) the Powerless: Human Rights and Housing

1 Re-Envisioning Public Housing: HOPE VI and the U.S. Federal Government's Role in Public Housing Provision / Diane K. Levy 21

2 Lead, Arsenic, PAHs, and the Relocation of Home: Government vs. Community / Elizabeth Beaton 39

Part 2 Devices of Power: Governing through Housing

3 Separate and Unequal: Housing Policy in Action on the Periphery of Our Nation's Capital / Sherri Lawson Clark 59

4 "We Came With Truth": Black Women's Struggles against Public Housing Policy / Cheryl Rodriguez 81

Part 3 Homing In: Power of the State to Define Reality

5 Building the Glass Box: Developing Public Housing in Suburban Areas / Edward G. Goetz 101

6 Donning The Emperor's New Clothes?: Consequences of Buying into the Rhetoric of Development / Marilyn M. Thomas-Houston 119

Part 4 More than Targets: Marginalized People Changing Policy

7 "We Are the First Youth": Participatory Planning in Transitional Housing for Suburban Homeless Youth / Rae Bridgman 141

7 Jamming the Meatgrinder World: Lessons Learned from Tenants Organizing in St. Paul / Mark Schuller 159

9 Expansion and Exclusion in Hong Kong's Squatter Resettlement Program: The Ratchet of Exclusion into Temporary and Interim Housing / Alan Smart, Ernest Chui 181

Appendix Housing Advocacy Organizations 199.

Notes:

"This book is the results of two conferences ... "--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-223) and index.

ISBN:

0739114603

OCLC:

70110074