| Homing Devices: The Poor as Targets of Public Housing Policy and Practice Contributor(s): Thomas-Houston, Marilyn M. (Author), Schuller, Mark (Author), Beaton, Elizabeth (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 073911302X ISBN-13: 9780739113028 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $133.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2006 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Globalization - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare - Political Science | Comparative Politics |
| Dewey: 307.14 |
| Physical Information: 248 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Developing World |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |