Public Housing and the Legacy of Segregation

by Margery Austin Turner, Susan J. Popkin, Lynette A. Rawlings

Book Overview

For the past two decades the United States has been transforming distressed public housing communities, with three ambitious goals: replace distressed developments with healthy mixed-income communities; help residents relocate to affordable housing, often in the private market; and empower former public housing families toward economic self-sufficiency. The transformation has focused on deconcentrating poverty, but not on the underlying role of racial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877667551
• ISBN13: 9780877667551
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"