Housing Policy and Vulnerable Families in The Inner City : Public Housing in Harlem, New York City / by Brigitte Zamzow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zamzow, Brigitte, author.

Contributor:

SpringerLink (Online service)

Series:

Earth and Environmental Science (Springer-11646)

SpringerBriefs in geography 2211-4165

SpringerBriefs in Geography, 2211-4165

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human geography.

Urban geography.

Sociology, Urban.

Social structure.

Equality.

Human Geography.

Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).

Urban Studies/Sociology.

Social Structure, Social Inequality.

Local Subjects:

Human Geography.

Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).

Urban Studies/Sociology.

Social Structure, Social Inequality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (IX, 75 pages) : 2 illustrations.

Edition:

First edition 2020.

Contained In:

Springer eBooks

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2020.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

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. public housing. Second, it shows that today's public housing transformation puts the same disadvantaged socio-economic clientele at risk, while the neighborhoods they call their homes are taken over by gentrification. It raises the powerful argument that the continuing privatization of Housing Authorities in the U.S. will likely lead to greater income diversity in formerly neglected neighborhoods, but it will happen at the expense of vulnerable families being displaced and resegregated further outside the city, if no regulatory planning measures for their protection are initiated by the government. By providing a solid empirical portrait of public housing in New York City's Harlem, this book provides a great resource to students, academics and planners interested in gentrification with specific concern for race and class. .

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.

Other Format:

Printed edition:

ISBN:

978-3-030-42849-5

9783030428495

Access Restriction:

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