Public housing myths : perception, reality, and social policy / edited by Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Fritz Umbach, and Lawrence J. Vale.

Contributor Bloom, Nicholas Dagen, 1969- editor.

Imprint:Ithaca ; London : Cornell University, 2015.

Description286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Note:Places -- Myth #1: Public housing stands alone / Joseph Heathcott, New School University -- Myth #2: Modernist architecture failed public housing / Bradford Hunt, Roosevelt University -- Myth #3: Public housing breeds crime / Fritz Umbach, Associate Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Alexander Gerould, San Francisco State University -- Myth #4: High-rise public housing is unmanageable / Nicholas Bloom, New York Institute of Technology -- Policy -- Myth #5: Public housing ended in failure during the 1970s / Yonah Freemark, Metropolitan Planning Council, Chicago -- Myth #6: Mixing incomes is necessary to "fix" public housing / Lawrence J. Vale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- Myth #7: Only immigrants still live in European public housing / Florian Urban, Glasgow School of Art -- Myth #8: Public housing is only for poor people / Nancy Kwak, University of California, San Diego -- People -- Myth #9: Public housing residents hate the police / Fritz Umbach, John Jay College of Criminal Justice -- Myth #10: Public housing tenants are powerless / Rhonda Y. Williams, Case Western Reserve -- Myth #11: Public housing tenants did not invest in their neighborhoods / Lisa Levenstein, University of North Carolina Greensboro.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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