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Public housing was an integral part of the New Deal, as the federal government funded public works to generate economic activity and offer material support to families made destitute by the Great Depression, and it remained a major element of urban policy in subsequent decades. As chronicled in New Deal Ruins, however, housing policy since the 1990's has turned to the demolition of public housing in favor of subsidized units in mixed-income communities and the use of tenant-based vouchers rather than direct housing subsidies. While these policies, articulated in the HOPE VI program begun in 1992, aimed to improve the social and economic conditions of urban residents, the results have been quite different. As Edward G. Goetz shows, hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced and there has been a loss of more than 250,000 permanently affordable residential units. Goetz offers a critical analysis of the nationwide effort to dismantle public housing by focusing on the impact of policy changes in three cities: Atlanta, Chicago, and New Orleans. Goetz shows how this transformation is related to pressures of gentrification and the enduring influence of race in American cities. African Americans have been disproportionately affected by this policy shift; it is the cities in which public housing is most closely identified with minorities that have been the most aggressive in removing units. Goetz convincingly refutes myths about the supposed failure of public housing. He offers an evidence-based argument for renewed investment in public housing to accompany housing choice initiatives as a model for innovative and equitable housing policy.

POLITICAL SCIENCE --- Public Policy / Social Policy --- Public housing --- Housing policy --- Relocation (Housing) --- Urban policy --- Business & Economics --- Real Estate, Housing & Land Use --- Government policy --- Government housing projects --- Housing --- Slums --- Low-income housing --- E-books --- Social housing

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Administration locale --- Autorités locales --- Collectivités locales --- Collectivités territoriales --- Développement économique --- Economic development --- Economic growth --- Economische ontwikkeling --- Gouvernement local --- Local administration --- Local authorities --- Local government --- Lokaal beleid --- Lokaal bestuur --- Lokale besturen --- Lokale overheid --- Overheid [gemeentelijk ] --- Plaatselijk bestuur --- Pouvoir local --- Pouvoirs locaux --- Township government --- #SBIB:041.IO --- #SBIB:35H1350 --- Development, Economic --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Subnational governments --- Administrative and political divisions --- Decentralization in government --- Public administration --- Organisatie en beleid: lokale besturen: algemeen

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A comprehensive exploration of local political restructuring in the face of massive global economic change. Prominent urban scholars cover the privatization of local politics, the emergence of local economic and social activism, and increased competition on both local and national levels in such diverse political settings as the US, the UK, Eastern.

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Social sciences (general) --- Discrimination in housing --- African Americans --- Minorities --- Segregation --- Housing