This 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 simple low-cost
housing-a poor side of town-helps those of modest means build
financial assets and join in the local democratic process. It is
more of a historical narrative than a straight policy book,
however-telling stories of Jacob Riis, zoning reformer Lawrence
Veiller, anti-reformer Jane Jacobs, housing developer William
Levitt, and African American small homes advocate Rev. Johnny Ray
Youngblood, as well as first-person accounts of onetime residents
of neighborhoods such as Detroit's Black Bottom who lost their
homes and businesses to housing reform and urban renewal. This is a
book with important policy implications-built on powerful, personal
stories.
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