Homing Devices The Poor as Targets of Public Housing Policy and Practice

by Thomas-Houston, Marilyn M.; Schuller, Mark; Beaton, Elizabeth; Bridgman, Rae; Chui, Ernest; Goetz, Edward G.; Clark, Sherri Lawson; Levy, Diane K.; Rodriguez, Cheryl; Smart, Alan

• ISBN13: 9780739113028
• ISBN10: 073911302X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-05-04
• Publisher: Lexington Books

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.

Table of Contents

Figures	ix
Tables	ix
Preface	xiii
Introduction: No Place Like Home, No Time Like the Present	1	(20)
Mark Schuller
marilyn M. thomas-houston
Part 1 Zeroing (in on) the Powerless: Human Rights and Housing
Re-Envisioning Public Housing: HOPE VI and the U.S. Federal Government's Role in Public Housing Provision	21	(18)
Diane K. Levy
Lead, Arsenic, PAHs, and the Relocation of Home: Government vs. Community	39	(20)
Elizabeth Beaton
Part 2 Devices of Power: Governing through Housing
Separate and Unequal: Housing Policy in Action on the Periphery of Our Nation's Capital	59	(22)
Sherri Lawson Clark
``We Came With Truth'': Black Women's Struggles against Public Housing Policy	81	(20)
Cheryl Rodriguez
Part 3 Homing In: Power of the State to Define Reality
Building the Glass Box: Developing Public Housing in Suburban Areas	101	(18)
Edward G. Goetz
Donning The Emperor's New Clothes'?: Consequences of Buying into the Rhetoric of Development	119	(22)
marilyn m. thomas-houston
Part 4 More than Targets: Marginalized People Changing Policy
``We Are the First Youth'': Participatory Planning in Transitional Housing for Suburban Homeless Youth	141	(18)
Rae Bridgman
Jamming the Meatgrinder World: Lessons Learned from Tenants Organizing in St. Paul	159	(22)
Mark Schuller
Expansion and Exclusion in Hong Kong's Squatter Resettlement Program: The Ratchet of Exclusion into Temporary and Interim Housing	181	(18)
Alan Smart
Ernest Chui
Appendix: Housing Advocacy Organizations	199	(2)
Bibliography	201	(24)
Index	225	(6)
About the Contributors	231