Housing the city by the bay : tenant activism, civil rights, and class politics in San Francisco / John Baranski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baranski, John, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Housing Authority of the City and County of San Francisco--History.

Housing Authority of the City and County of San Francisco.

Housing policy--California.

Housing policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

San Francisco has always had an affordable housing problem. Starting in the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake and ending with the dot-com boom, Housing the City by the Bay considers the history of one proposed answer to the city's ongoing housing crisis: public housing. John Baranski follows the ebbs and flows of San Francisco's public housing program: the Progressive Era and New Deal reforms that led to the creation of the San Francisco Housing Authority in 1938, conflicts over urban renewal and desegregation, and the federal and local efforts to privatize government housing at the turn of the twenty-first century. This history of public housing sheds light on changing attitudes towards liberalism, the welfare state, and the economic and civil rights attached to citizenship. Baranski details the ways San Francisco residents turned to the public housing program to build class-based political movements in a multi-racial city and introduces us to the individuals—community activists, politicians, reformers, and city employees—who were continually forced to seek new strategies to achieve their aims as the winds of federal legislation shifted. Ultimately, Housing the City by the Bay advances the idea that public housing remains a vital part of the social and political landscape, intimately connected to the struggle for economic rights in urban America.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1. PROGRESSIVE ERA HOUSING REFORM

CHAPTER 2. THE SAN FRANCISCO HOUSING AUTHORITY AND THE NEW DEAL

CHAPTER 3. PUBLIC HOUSING, RACE, AND CONFLICTING VISIONS OF DEMOCRACY AND THE STATE

CHAPTER 4. PROSPERITY, DEVELOPMENT, AND INSTITUTIONAL RACISM IN THE COLD WAR

CHAPTER 5. SOMETHING TO HELP THEMSELVES

CHAPTER 6. OUT OF STEP WITH WASHINGTON

CHAPTER 7. ALL HOUSING IS PUBLIC

CHAPTER 8. PRIVATIZING THE PUBLIC IN THE DOT-COM ERA

CONCLUSION

APPENDIX

ARCHIVAL SOURCES AND ABBREVIATIONS

NOTES

ART CREDITS

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9781503607620

1503607623

OCLC:

1178769100