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- Book Synopsis
- Social housing is almost unheard of in the U.S.-where it exists at all, it is usually limited to lowincome housing projects. The MitchellLama program in NYC, however, has since the 1950s fostered thriving complexes of highly soughtafter subsidized middleclass housing. Yet the stability of these complexes is now being threatened by a growing movement among residents to privatize their apartments. Privatization would remove these apartments from the social housing pool and allow residents to sell their units for millions of dollars on the free market. Urban planner and oral historian Jonathan Tarleton introduces us to these residents, their way of life, and the pro and antiprivatization camps into which they've coalesced. As both sides hand out pamphlets to their neighbors, campaigning and jockeying in the runup to the privatization vote, their dilemma illuminates profound issues on the nature of housing in the United States-its commodification, those who argue that it should be a public good, its increasing scarcity and unaffordability, and questions of race, class, tenant rights, indigenous sovereignty, and what we owe each other.
- About The Author
- Jonathan Tarleton is a writer, researcher, urban planner, and oral historian who specializes on affordable housing and development. He has worked with the Boston Housing Authority, the Brooklyn Historical Society, and the online magazine Urban Omnibus, for which he served as editorinchief. He has received awards and funding from the Oral History Association, the American Planning Association, and the Sasaki Foundation, and has lectured at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and Wagner School of Public Service. He holds a master's degree in urban planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780807017807
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Beacon Press, (04 February 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 328
- Weight
- 567 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 229 x 152 mm
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