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Good Places to Live: Poverty and Public Housing in Canada
Jim Silver
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Description for Good Places to Live: Poverty and Public Housing in Canada
paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JKS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 9. Weight in Grams: 232.
Public housing projects are stigmatized and stereotyped as bad places to live, as havens of poverty, illegal activity and violence. In many cities they are being bulldozed, ostensibly for these reasons but also because the land on which they are located has become so valuable. In Good Places to Live, Jim Silver argues that the problems with which it is so often associated are not inherent to public housing but are the result of structural inequalities and neoliberal government policies. This book urges readers to reconsider the fate of public housing, arguing that urban poverty – what Silver calls spatially ... Read more
Public housing projects are stigmatized and stereotyped as bad places to live, as havens of poverty, illegal activity and violence. In many cities they are being bulldozed, ostensibly for these reasons but also because the land on which they are located has become so valuable. In Good Places to Live, Jim Silver argues that the problems with which it is so often associated are not inherent to public housing but are the result of structural inequalities and neoliberal government policies. This book urges readers to reconsider the fate of public housing, arguing that urban poverty – what Silver calls spatially ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Fernwood Publishing Canada
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Black Point, Nova Scotia, Canada
ISBN
9781552664148
SKU
V9781552664148
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