South Jamaica Houses
Author | : New York City Housing Authority |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1940 |
Genre | : Housing |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : New York City Housing Authority |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1940 |
Genre | : Housing |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Nicholas Dagen Bloom |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2014-08-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812201329 |
When it comes to large-scale public housing in the United States, the consensus for the past decades has been to let the wrecking balls fly. The demolition of infamous projects, such as Pruitt-Igoe in St. Louis and the towers of Cabrini-Green in Chicago, represents to most Americans the fate of all public housing. Yet one notable exception to this national tragedy remains. The New York City Housing Authority, America's largest public housing manager, still maintains over 400,000 tenants in its vast and well-run high-rise projects. While by no means utopian, New York City's public housing remains an acceptable and affordable option. The story of New York's success where so many other housing authorities faltered has been ignored for too long. Public Housing That Worked shows how New York's administrators, beginning in the 1930s, developed a rigorous system of public housing management that weathered a variety of social and political challenges. A key element in the long-term viability of New York's public housing has been the constant search for better methods in fields such as tenant selection, policing, renovation, community affairs, and landscape design. Nicholas Dagen Bloom presents the achievements that contradict the common wisdom that public housing projects are inherently unmanageable. By focusing on what worked, rather than on the conventional history of failure and blame, Bloom provides useful models for addressing the current crisis in affordable urban housing. Public Housing That Worked is essential reading for practitioners and scholars in the areas of public policy, urban history, planning, criminal justice, affordable housing management, social work, and urban affairs.
Author | : LaShawn Harris |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2016-06-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0252098420 |
During the early twentieth century, a diverse group of African American women carved out unique niches for themselves within New York City's expansive informal economy. LaShawn Harris illuminates the labor patterns and economic activity of three perennials within this kaleidoscope of underground industry: sex work, numbers running for gambling enterprises, and the supernatural consulting business. Mining police and prison records, newspaper accounts, and period literature, Harris teases out answers to essential questions about these women and their working lives. She also offers a surprising revelation, arguing that the burgeoning underground economy served as a catalyst in working-class black women TMs creation of the employment opportunities, occupational identities, and survival strategies that provided them with financial stability and a sense of labor autonomy and mobility. At the same time, urban black women, all striving for economic and social prospects and pleasures, experienced the conspicuous and hidden dangers associated with newfound labor opportunities.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Water Resources, Transportation, and Infrastructure |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Jamaica (New York, N.Y.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Anghelen Arrington Phillips |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 77 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Architecture, Domestic |
ISBN | : |
Author | : New York (State). Division of Housing and Community Renewal |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1943 |
Genre | : Apartment houses |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Federal Works Agency |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1940 |
Genre | : Public works |
ISBN | : |
Author | : New York City Housing Authority |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1945 |
Genre | : Housing |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Housing |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1142 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Housing |
ISBN | : |
Author | : New York (State) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1336 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Session laws |
ISBN | : |