Homing Devices The Poor as Targets of Public

Homing Devices is a collection of ethnographies that address the central problem affecting not only the United States but also other developed and developing nations around the globe-affordable housing. These ethnographies cut across national and cultural borders, offering a diverse look at housing policies and practices as well as addressing the problems associated with providing or obtaining affordable housing.

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Preface

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Introduction: No Place Like Home, No Time Like the Present

Mark Schuller and marilyn m. thomas-houston

1

(20)

Part 1 Zeroing (in on) the Powerless: Human Rights and Housing

1 Re-Envisioning Public Housing: HOPE VI and the U.S. Federal Government's Role in Public Housing Provision

Diane K. Levy

21

(18)

2 Lead, Arsenic, PAHs, and the Relocation of Home: Government vs. Community

Elizabeth Beaton

39

(20)

Part 2 Devices of Power: Governing through Housing

3 Separate and Unequal: Housing Policy in Action on the Periphery of Our Nation's Capital

Sherri Lawson Clark

59

(22)

4 "We Came With Truth": Black Women's Struggles against Public Housing Policy

Cheryl Rodriguez

81

(20)

Part 3 Homing In: Power of the State to Define Reality

5 Building the Glass Box: Developing Public Housing in Suburban Areas

Edward G. Goetz

101

(18)

6 Donning The Emperor's New Clothes?: Consequences of Buying into the Rhetoric of Development

marilyn m. thomas-houston

119

(22)

Part 4 More than Targets: Marginalized People Changing Policy

7 "We Are the First Youth": Participatory Planning in Transitional Housing for Suburban Homeless Youth

Rae Bridgman

141

(18)

7 Jamming the Meatgrinder World: Lessons Learned from Tenants Organizing in St. Paul

Mark Schuller

159

(22)

9 Expansion and Exclusion in Hong Kong's Squatter Resettlement Program: The Ratchet of Exclusion into Temporary and Interim Housing

Alan Smart and Ernest Chui

181

(18)

Appendix: Housing Advocacy Organizations

199

(2)

Bibliography

201

(24)

Index

225

(6)

About the Contributors

231

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Homing Devices The Poor as Targets of Public Housing Policy and Practice

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