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Neighborhood Success Stories - Creating and Sustaining Affordable Housing in New York (Paperback)
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Neighborhood Success Stories - Creating and Sustaining Affordable Housing in New York (Paperback)
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The high cost of building affordable housing in New York, and
cities like it, has long been a topic of urgent debate. Yet despite
its paramount importance and the endless work of public and private
groups to find ways to provide it, affordable housing continues to
be an elusive commodity in New York City-and increasingly so in our
current economic and political climate. In a timely, captivating
memoir, Carol Lamberg weighs in on this vital issue with the
lessons she learned and the successes she won while working with
the Settlement Housing Fund, where she was executive director from
1983 until 2014. Lamberg provides a unique perspective on the great
changes that have swept the housing arena since the curtailment of
the welfare state in the 1970s, and spells out what is needed to
address today's housing problems. In a tradition of "big city"
social work memoirs stretching back to Jane Addams, Lamberg
reflects on the social purpose, vision, and practical challenges of
the projects she's been involved in, while vividly capturing the
life and times of those who engaged in the creation and maintenance
of housing and those who have benefited from it. Using a wealth of
interviews with managers and residents alike, alongside the
author's firsthand experiences, this book depicts examples of
successful community development between 1975 and 1997 in the Bronx
and on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. In the "West Bronx Story,"
Lamberg details the painful but ultimately exhilarating development
of eighteen buildings that comprise New Settlement Apartments-a
dramatic transformation of a devastated neighborhood into a
thriving community. In "A Tale of Two Bridges," the author depicts
a different path to success, along with its particular challenges.
The redevelopment of this area on the Lower East Side involved six
different Federal housing programs and consisted of six residential
sites, a running track, and a large scale supermarket. To this day,
forty years later, all the buildings remain strong. With
Neighborhood Success Stories, Lamberg offers a roadmap to making
affordable housing a reality with the key ingredients of dogged
persistence, group efforts, and creative coalition building. Her
powerful memoir provides hope and practical encouragement in times
that are more challenging than ever.
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