Main entry:

Bloom, Nicholas Dagen, 1969-

Title & Author:

Public housing that worked : New York in the twentieth century / Nicholas Dagen Bloom.

Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2008.

Description:

viii, 354 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-348) and index.
Model housing as a municipal service. Defining a housing crisis; Three programs are better than one; High-rise public housing begins; Model tenants for model housing; Tightly managed communities -- Transforming postwar New York. The boom years; Designs for a new metropolis; The price of design reform; The benefits of social engineering; Meeting the management challenge -- Welfare-state public housing. Surviving the welfare state; The value of consistency -- Affordable housing. Model housing revisited -- Appendix A. Guide to housing developments -- Appendix B. Tenant selection policies and procedures.
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Summary:

"The story of New York's success where so many other housing authorities faltered has been ignored for too long. Public Housing That Worked shows how New York's administrators, beginning in the 1930s, developed a rigorous system of public housing management that weathered a variety of social and political challenges. A key element in the long-term viability of New York's public housing has been the constant search for better methods in fields such as tenant selection, policing, renovation, community affairs, and landscape design." "Nicholas Dagen Bloom presents the achievements that contradict the common wisdom that public housing projects are inherently unmanageable. This book is essential reading for practitioners and scholars in the areas of public policy, urban history, planning, criminal justice, affordable housing management, social work, and urban affairs."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
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ISBN:

9780812240771 (alk. paper)
0812240774 (alk. paper)
0812220676
9780812220674

Subject:

New York City Housing Authority History 20th century.
New York City Housing Authority
Public housing New York (State) New York History 20th century.
City planning New York (State) New York History 20th century.
Logement social New York (État) New York Histoire 20e siècle.
City planning
Public housing
Social conditions
Kommunaler Wohnungsbau
Soziale Situation
Sozialer Wohnungsbau
Stadtplanung
Wohnungsversorgung
New York (N.Y.) Social conditions 20th century.
New York (State) New York
New York, NY

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 258245
Call No.: BIB 188929
Status: Available