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Format: 1 online resource : , 33 illus.

ISBN: 9780812201321

Content: Public Housing That Worked offers a comprehensive history of America's largest and most successful housing authority. The New York City Housing Authority pioneered, and still maintains, rigorous systems of public housing management that allowed it to avoid the downward spiral experienced by most American public housing authorities.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Introduction -- , Part I: Model Housing as a Municipal Service -- , Chapter 1. Defining a Housing Crisis -- , Chapter 2. Three Programs Are Better Than One -- , Chapter 3. High-Rise Public Housing Begins -- , Chapter 4. Model Tenants for Model Housing -- , Chapter 5. Tightly Managed Communities -- , Part II: Transforming Postwar New York -- , Chapter 6. The Boom Years -- , Chapter 7. Designs for a New Metropolis -- , Chapter 8. The Price of Design Reform -- , Chapter 9. The Benefits of Social Engineering -- , Chapter 10. Meeting the Management Challenge -- , Part III: Welfare-State Public Housing -- , Chapter 11. Surviving the Welfare State -- , Chapter 12. The Value of Consistency -- , Part IV: Affordable Housing -- , Chapter 13. Model Housing Revisited -- , Appendix A: Guide to Housing Developments -- , Appendix B: Tenant Selection Policies and Procedures -- , Notes -- , Index -- , Acknowledgments , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.9783/9780812201321

URL: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812201321

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Format: 1 online resource (364 pages) : , illustrations, maps

ISBN: 9780812201321 (e-book)

Note: 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.

Additional Edition: Print version: Bloom, Nicholas Dagen. Public housing that worked : New York in the twentieth century. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2008] ISBN 9780812220674

Language: English

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