After the projects : public housing redevelopment and the governance of the poorest Americans / Lawrence J. Vale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vale, Lawrence J., 1959- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public housing--United States--Case studies.

Public housing.

Urban renewal--United States--Case studies.

Urban renewal.

Legal assistance to the poor.

Low-income housing.

United States.

Low-income housing--United States--Case studies.

Legal assistance to the poor--United States--Case studies.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xvii, 479 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2019]

Summary:

America is in the midst of a rental affordability crisis. More than a quarter of those that rent their homes spend more than half of their income for housing, even as city leaders across the United States have been busily dismantling the nation's urban public housing projects. 0In After the Projects, Lawrence Vale investigates the deeply-rooted spatial politics of public housing development and redevelopment at a time when lower-income Americans face a desperate struggle to find affordable rental housing in many cities. Drawing on more than 200 interviews with public housing residents, real estate developers, and community leaders, Vale analyzes the different ways in which four major American cities implemented the federal governments HOPE VI program for0public housing transformation, while also providing a national picture of this program. Some cities attempted to minimize the presence of the poorest residents in their new mixed-income communities, but other cities tried to serve as many low-income households as possible. Through examining the social, political, and economic forces that underlie housing displacement, Vale develops the novel concept of governance constellations. He shows how the stars align differently in each city, depending on community pressures that have evolved in response to each citys past struggles with urban renewal. This allows disparate key players to gain prominence when implementing HOPE VI redevelopment. 0A much-needed comparative approach to the existing research on public housing, After the Projects shines a light on the broad variety of attitudes towards public housing redevelopment in American cities and identifies ways to achieve more equitable processes and outcomes for low-income Americans.

Contents:

Developing, redeveloping, and governing public housing

Public housing, redevelopment, and the governance of poverty

After urban renewal : building governance constellations

The big developer

River Garden in New Orleans : purging the poorest and satisfying the developers

The rise and fall of St. Thomas

The tortuous road from St. Thomas to River Garden

Inhabiting and inhibiting River Garden

Plebs

Orchard gardens in boston : hope vi without hoping the poor will leave

The rise of orchard Park

The fall of Orchard Park, the rise of Orchard Gardens

Publica major

Tucson's Posadas Sentinel: scattering the barrio without purging the poorest

The rise of urban renewal and the Connie Chambers project

The fall of Connie Chambers and the rise of Posadas Sentinel

Nonprofitus

San Francisco's North Beach Place : resisting gentrification by replacing all public housing

The rise and fall of North Beach Place

Renewing North Beach Place

Life at North Beach Place : a model for other places?

Cities of stars

Housing the poorest : hoping for more

Endnotes

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780190624330

0190624337

OCLC:

1033572678