{"product_id":"the-poor-side-of-town-and-why-we-need-it-9781641772020","title":"The Poor Side of Town: And Why We Need It","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book combines a critique of more than a century of housing reform policies, including public and other subsidized housing as well as exclusionary zoning, with the idea that simple low-cost housing--a poor side of town--helps those of modest means build financial assets and join in the local democratic process. It is more of a historical narrative than a straight policy book, however--telling stories of Jacob Riis, zoning reformer Lawrence Veiller, anti-reformer Jane Jacobs, housing developer William Levitt, and African American small homes advocate Rev. Johnny Ray Youngblood, as well as first-person accounts of onetime residents of neighborhoods such as Detroit's Black Bottom who lost their homes and businesses to housing reform and urban renewal. This is a book with important policy implications--built on powerful, personal stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHoward Husock is an Adjunct Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute as well as a Contributing Editor to \u003ci\u003eCity Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. From 2006-2019 he served as Vice-President, Research and Publications at the Manhattan Institute; from 1987-2006 he was the Director, of Case Studies in Public Policy and Management at Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. His work at WGBH-TV, Boston (1978-87) won a National News and Documentary Emmy Award, New England Emmy awards, and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for Television. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eAmerica's Trillion-Dollar Housing Policy Mistake: The Failure of American Housing Policy\u003c\/i\u003e (Ivan R. Dee, 2003); \u003ci\u003ePhilanthropy Under Fire\u003c\/i\u003e (Encounter, 2015) and \u003ci\u003eWho Killed Civil Society?\u003c\/i\u003e (Encounter, 2019). He is married to the ceramic artist Robin Henschel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Encounter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50646084059410,"sku":"9781641772020","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b77cbbf5-7b71-40a3-8fa9-c75d1208291a.jpg?v=1733168611","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-poor-side-of-town-and-why-we-need-it-9781641772020","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}