Good Places to Live: Poverty and Public Housing in Canada by Jim Silver - 2011-10-01

Halifax: Fernwood, 2011. Paper bound, illustrated with a few tables and photos, Pp157. Tight and unmarked - a very good or better copy. 225 grams. We welcome all reasonable offers on our books. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

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Fernwood Books Ltd, 2011. Paperback. New. 157 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.25 inches.

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Paperback / softback. New. Demonstrating how public housing projects are stigmatized and stereotyped as havens of poverty, illegal activity, and violence, this study contends that the problems with which they are so often associated are not inherent but the result of structural inequalities and neoliberal government policies. It urges a reconsideration of the fate of this type of housing tenure, arguing that urban poverty--dubbed as "spatially concentrated racialized poverty" by the author--is not solved by razing public housing. Instead, he illustrates how these projects can be rebuilt from within based on their communities' strengths and supported by meaningful public investment. It provides hope that vibrant and healthy neighborhoods can be created while maintaining much-needed low-income housing. Four projects are explored--in Vancouver, Toronto, Halifax, and Winnipeg--through the voices of actual residents who affirm that their projects can be ideal homes, if the political… Read More

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