Unseen Politics of Public Housing

Unseen Politics of Public Housing

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Chenault, Tiffany Gayle
Lexington Books
EAN: 9780739165089
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The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) emphasizes the word ';community' for building economic development, citizen participations, and revitalization of facilities and services in urban and rural areas. Resident Councils are one way to develop and build community among residents of public housing. Despite HUD stressing community building in public housing and investing money and policies around it, there are some resident councils that are not fulfilling the expectations of HUD.This book is my attempt to describe and explain HUD's expectations for the resident council as an active agent for community building and the actual practices of the resident council. I argue that policies and regulations of resident councils which exist to support the effectiveness of the resident council in creating and implementing community-building, self-sufficiency, and empowerment activities and goals in a public housing community may do more harm than good. The Department of Housing and Urban Development invests and spends billions on Public Housing Programs (6.6 billion in 2013). The majority of the 1.2 million people who live in public housing do not live in large urban areas with thousands of people confined to a certain space. The majority of public housing units (90%) have fewer than 500 units. These smaller units and the people that live in them tend to go unnoticed. This ethnographic case study focuses on explaining and understanding the factors and constraints that exist between HUDs expectations for the resident council as an active agent for community building and the actual practices of the resident council. To explain the disjunctionin fact, to determine if such disjunctions identified by Rivertown council members are real. Using the tenets of Critical Race Theory allows us to understand what forceseither real or imagined, structural or culturalprevent the resident council from being an effective agent for change in the public housing community.
EAN 9780739165089
ISBN 0739165089
Typ produktu Ebook
Vydavateľ Lexington Books
Dátum vydania 15. augusta 2015
Stránky 150
Jazyk English
Krajina Uruguay
Autori Chenault, Tiffany Gayle
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