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: 9780739114605
• ISBN10: 0739114603
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-27
• 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
Mark Schuller and marilyn m. thomas-houston	1	(20)
Part 1 Zeroing (in on) the Powerless: Human Rights and Housing
1 Re-Envisioning Public Housing: HOPE VI and the U.S. Federal Government's Role in Public Housing Provision
Diane K. Levy	21	(18)
2 Lead, Arsenic, PAHs, and the Relocation of Home: Government vs. Community
Elizabeth Beaton	39	(20)
Part 2 Devices of Power: Governing through Housing
3 Separate and Unequal: Housing Policy in Action on the Periphery of Our Nation's Capital
Sherri Lawson Clark	59	(22)
4 "We Came With Truth": Black Women's Struggles against Public Housing Policy
Cheryl Rodriguez	81	(20)
Part 3 Homing In: Power of the State to Define Reality
5 Building the Glass Box: Developing Public Housing in Suburban Areas
Edward G. Goetz	101	(18)
6 Donning The Emperor's New Clothes?: Consequences of Buying into the Rhetoric of Development
marilyn m. thomas-houston	119	(22)
Part 4 More than Targets: Marginalized People Changing Policy
7 "We Are the First Youth": Participatory Planning in Transitional Housing for Suburban Homeless Youth
Rae Bridgman	141	(18)
7 Jamming the Meatgrinder World: Lessons Learned from Tenants Organizing in St. Paul
Mark Schuller	159	(22)
9 Expansion and Exclusion in Hong Kong's Squatter Resettlement Program: The Ratchet of Exclusion into Temporary and Interim Housing
Alan Smart and Ernest Chui	181	(18)
Appendix: Housing Advocacy Organizations	199	(2)
Bibliography	201	(24)
Index	225	(6)
About the Contributors	231