The Poor Side of Town - Husock, Howard A
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"The book combines a critique of more than a century of housing reform policies--including public and other subsidized housing, as well as exclusionary zoning--with the idea that small houses --a poor side of town--helps those of modest means build financial assets and join in the local democratic process. It is more an historic narrative than a straight policy book, however--telling stories of Jacob Riis, zoning reformer Lawrence Veiller, anti-reformer Jane Jacobs; housing developer William Levitt; African- American small homes advocate Rev. Johnnie Ray Youngblood, as welll as first person…mehr

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"The book combines a critique of more than a century of housing reform policies--including public and other subsidized housing, as well as exclusionary zoning--with the idea that small houses --a poor side of town--helps those of modest means build financial assets and join in the local democratic process. It is more an historic narrative than a straight policy book, however--telling stories of Jacob Riis, zoning reformer Lawrence Veiller, anti-reformer Jane Jacobs; housing developer William Levitt; African- American small homes advocate Rev. Johnnie Ray Youngblood, as welll as first person accounts of one- time residents of neighborhoods such as Detroit's Black Bottom who lose their homes and businesses to housing reform and urban renewal. It combines reportage and policy in a way intenced to engage readers"--
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Autorenporträt
Howard Husock is an Adjunct Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute as well as a Contributing Editor to City Journal. From 2006-2019 he served as Vice-President, Research and Publications at the Manhattan Institute; from 1987-2006 he was the Director, of Case Studies in Public Policy and Management at Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. His work at WGBH-TV, Boston (1978-87) won a National News and Documentary Emmy Award, New England Emmy awards, and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for Television. He is the author of America's Trillion-Dollar Housing Policy Mistake: The Failure of American Housing Policy (Ivan R. Dee, 2003); Philanthropy Under Fire (Encounter, 2015) and Who Killed Civil Society? (Encounter, 2019). He is married to the ceramic artist Robin Henschel.