Public housing that worked : New York in the twentieth century /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bloom, Nicholas Dagen, 1969- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2008]
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.