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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428942955
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 39
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FROM THE PURITANS TO THE PROJECTS
Author: Lawrence J. VALE
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674025752
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
From the almshouses of seventeenth-century Puritans to the massive housing projects of the mid-twentieth century, the struggle over housing assistance in the United States has exposed a deep-seated ambivalence about the place of the urban poor. Lawrence J. Vale's groundbreaking book is both a comprehensive institutional history of public housing in Boston and a broader examination of the nature and extent of public obligation to house socially and economically marginal Americans during the past 350 years. First, Vale highlights startling continuities both in the way housing assistance has been delivered to the American poor and in the policies used to reward the nonpoor. He traces the stormy history of the Boston Housing Authority, a saga of entrenched patronage and virulent racism tempered, and partially overcome, by the efforts of unyielding reformers. He explores the birth of public housing as a program intended to reward the upwardly mobile working poor, details its painful transformation into a system designed to cope with society's least advantaged, and questions current policy efforts aimed at returning to a system of rewards for responsible members of the working class. The troubled story of Boston public housing exposes the mixed motives and ideological complexity that have long characterized housing in America, from the Puritans to the projects.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674025752
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
From the almshouses of seventeenth-century Puritans to the massive housing projects of the mid-twentieth century, the struggle over housing assistance in the United States has exposed a deep-seated ambivalence about the place of the urban poor. Lawrence J. Vale's groundbreaking book is both a comprehensive institutional history of public housing in Boston and a broader examination of the nature and extent of public obligation to house socially and economically marginal Americans during the past 350 years. First, Vale highlights startling continuities both in the way housing assistance has been delivered to the American poor and in the policies used to reward the nonpoor. He traces the stormy history of the Boston Housing Authority, a saga of entrenched patronage and virulent racism tempered, and partially overcome, by the efforts of unyielding reformers. He explores the birth of public housing as a program intended to reward the upwardly mobile working poor, details its painful transformation into a system designed to cope with society's least advantaged, and questions current policy efforts aimed at returning to a system of rewards for responsible members of the working class. The troubled story of Boston public housing exposes the mixed motives and ideological complexity that have long characterized housing in America, from the Puritans to the projects.
Public housing information on receiverships at public housing authorities.
Author:
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428942955
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428942955
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1654
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1654
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Public Housing Operating Subsidies
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Strategies and Saints
Author: Langley Carleton Keyes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780877665601
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780877665601
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee ...
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2276
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2276
Book Description
Creating Public Value
Author: Mark H. Moore
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674248783
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
A seminal figure in the field of public management, Mark H. Moore presents his summation of fifteen years of research, observation, and teaching about what public sector executives should do to improve the performance of public enterprises. Useful for both practicing public executives and those who teach them, this book explicates some of the richest of several hundred cases used at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and illuminates their broader lessons for government managers. Moore addresses four questions that have long bedeviled public administration: What should citizens and their representatives expect and demand from public executives? What sources can public managers consult to learn what is valuable for them to produce? How should public managers cope with inconsistent and fickle political mandates? How can public managers find room to innovate? Moore’s answers respond to the well-understood difficulties of managing public enterprises in modern society by recommending specific, concrete changes in the practices of individual public managers: how they envision what is valuable to produce, how they engage their political overseers, and how they deliver services and fulfill obligations to clients. Following Moore’s cases, we witness dilemmas faced by a cross-section of public managers: William Ruckelshaus and the Environmental Protection Agency; Jerome Miller and the Department of Youth Services; Miles Mahoney and the Park Plaza Redevelopment Project; David Sencer and the swine flu scare; Lee Brown and the Houston Police Department; Harry Spence and the Boston Housing Authority. Their work, together with Moore’s analysis, reveals how public managers can achieve their true goal of producing public value.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674248783
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
A seminal figure in the field of public management, Mark H. Moore presents his summation of fifteen years of research, observation, and teaching about what public sector executives should do to improve the performance of public enterprises. Useful for both practicing public executives and those who teach them, this book explicates some of the richest of several hundred cases used at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and illuminates their broader lessons for government managers. Moore addresses four questions that have long bedeviled public administration: What should citizens and their representatives expect and demand from public executives? What sources can public managers consult to learn what is valuable for them to produce? How should public managers cope with inconsistent and fickle political mandates? How can public managers find room to innovate? Moore’s answers respond to the well-understood difficulties of managing public enterprises in modern society by recommending specific, concrete changes in the practices of individual public managers: how they envision what is valuable to produce, how they engage their political overseers, and how they deliver services and fulfill obligations to clients. Following Moore’s cases, we witness dilemmas faced by a cross-section of public managers: William Ruckelshaus and the Environmental Protection Agency; Jerome Miller and the Department of Youth Services; Miles Mahoney and the Park Plaza Redevelopment Project; David Sencer and the swine flu scare; Lee Brown and the Houston Police Department; Harry Spence and the Boston Housing Authority. Their work, together with Moore’s analysis, reveals how public managers can achieve their true goal of producing public value.
Financial Condition of Local Housing Authorities
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
National Defense Migration
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee Investigating National Defense Migration
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Category : Migrant labor
Languages : en
Pages : 1614
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Publisher:
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Category : Migrant labor
Languages : en
Pages : 1614
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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
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Category : Administrative procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 1914
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Publisher:
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Category : Administrative procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 1914
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