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

Thomas-Houston, Marilyn M.; Schuller, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0739114603 ISBN 13: 9780739114605

Publisher: Lexington Books, 2006

Synopsis

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. The studies incorporate perspectives of both policymakers and recipients and as such provide comparative insight into public housing policy programs and practices based on qualitative research. The collected experts provide an analysis of such problems as displacement, resettlement, policy implementation, collaborative planning, exclusionary practices, environmental racism, and silencing the voices of dissent. Editors Schuller and thomas-houston have assembled a strong volume that offers a fresh approach to discussing policy while bringing the particular problem of housing to the forefront in a way that will appeal to scholars of anthropology and social science, governmental policy departments, and activists from the general public across the nation.

About this title

About the Author:

marilyn m. thomas-houston is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African American Studies and former Interim Director of the African American Studies Program at the University of Florida. Mark Schuller was formerly the organizer for the St. Paul Tenants Union. He is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Anthropology Department at University of California, Santa Barbara.

Review:

This book is a useful toolkit for anyone concerned about the human right to housing, the current war on the poor, and organizing/empowering low income people. Readers will gain new insights into action strategies at the local level. (Michael Stoops, National Coalition for the Homeless)

An excellent synthesis of detailed ethnographic research and social critique of current housing policy in the U.S. and globally.... Demonstrates how an ethnographic understanding of the lives of those who live in public housing can generate (produce) better and more equitable policy decisions. (Setha Low, The Graduate Center, City University of New York)

About this edition

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0739114603
• ISBN 13: 9780739114605
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248