Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century

Nicholas Dagen Bloom

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2008

Public Housing That Worked

New York in the Twentieth Century

Nicholas Dagen Bloom

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812201321

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About this book

Public Housing That Worked offers a comprehensive history of America's largest and most successful housing authority. The New York City Housing Authority pioneered, and still maintains, rigorous systems of public housing management that allowed it to avoid the downward spiral experienced by most American public housing authorities.

Author / Editor information

Nicholas Dagen Bloom is Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies at the New York Institute of Technology and author of Merchant of Illusion: James Rouse, America's Salesman of the Businessman's Utopia.

Reviews

"In Public Housing That Worked, Nicholas Dagen Bloom offers the best examination to date of the origins, choices, mistakes, and management of the New York City Housing Authority from its beginnings in the 1930s up through the present. He stresses effective management as the principal reason behind why the city's public stock of housing has survived in decent condition while scores of projects across the country have been demolished. The book should be essential reading for planners and policy analysts seeking a detailed look inside how and why New York's public housing became a notable if controversial exception."—John Goering, Baruch College and CUNY Graduate Center and former HUD project manager

"Highly recommended."—Choice

"While high-rise public housing in the United States is widely regarded as a disaster, the experiment in New York City has thrived for more than seventy years. Nicholas Bloom's well-written, well-researched, and well-illustrated work provides the most sophisticated answers yet to this American paradox."—Kenneth T. Jackson, Columbia University

"Nicholas Dagen Bloom's bold thesis is powerfully argued and effectively overturns much received wisdom about the history of public housing in the United States. This well researched and clearly written book will undoubtedly trigger a fierce debate both among historians and those interested in current housing policy."—Robert Bruegmann, author of Sprawl: A Compact History

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Model Housing as a Municipal Service
Chapter 1. Defining a Housing Crisis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Chapter 2. Three Programs Are Better Than One Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Chapter 3. High-Rise Public Housing Begins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Chapter 4. Model Tenants for Model Housing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Chapter 5. Tightly Managed Communities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
Part II: Transforming Postwar New York
Chapter 6. The Boom Years Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Chapter 7. Designs for a New Metropolis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
Chapter 8. The Price of Design Reform Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
Chapter 9. The Benefits of Social Engineering Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
Chapter 10. Meeting the Management Challenge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Part III: Welfare-State Public Housing
Chapter 11. Surviving the Welfare State Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Chapter 12. The Value of Consistency Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	220
Part IV: Affordable Housing
Chapter 13. Model Housing Revisited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Appendix A: Guide to Housing Developments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Appendix B: Tenant Selection Policies and Procedures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	353

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 368
Illustrations
- Other: 33 illus.
Keywords: American History; Public Policy; American Studies; Urban Studies; Political Science

eBook

Published: August 4, 2014
ISBN: 9780812201321