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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794896103321

Autore

Arena John

Titolo

Driven from New Orleans : how nonprofits betray public housing and promote privatization

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2012

ISBN

0-8166-8200-3

1-4529-4810-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xl, 303 p.) : ill., maps

Disciplina

363.5/850976335

Soggetti

Public housing - Louisiana - New Orleans

Nonprofit organizations - Louisiana - New Orleans

Privatization - Louisiana - New Orleans

Business & Economics

Real Estate, Housing & Land Use

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

From protesting federal and local government initiatives to scale back public housing, tenant leaders and advisors in the early 1980s co-operated with a planning effort to privatise and downsize their communities. John Arena argues that the insertion of radical public housing leaders and their activist allies into a government and foundation-funded non-profit-complex is key to understanding this unexpected political transformation.