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by Tom Angotti So you’re a planner? That’s just what we need. Ever hear that before? Why is it some people think planning can set things right? If cities are a mess, they think planning will bring order to chaos, reason to insanity. Isn’t this just another example of the American belief in wonder drugs […]
Columns The Seventh Generation: Street Life and a Connection to the Land by Tom Angotti Feature Planners Can Plan to Plant by Ellen Kirby Commentary Two Corners of the Same Tent: A Response to Tom Angotti by Timothy Ross Review William J. Wilson’s When Work Disappears by Dick Platkin
by Timothy Ross It is possible to support public housing as part of a broader progressive strategy — two corners of the same tent. However, Tom Angotti makes at least three mistakes in his response to my article. He suggests that concentrations of poverty or wealth are not real issues, that public housing should be […]
by Ellen Kirby New York City has the largest urban parks system in the United States. Covering some 26,000 acres, these parks serve a constituency of almost 9 million people, and provide park space equivalent to an eleven-foot-square plot for each citizen. Nevertheless, New York has fewer acres of green space per capita than any […]
by Tom Angotti HANOI, VIETNAM — If you love livable cities, hurry up to Hanoi. This city missed generations of “urban renewal” and, like Havana, lives in its history. I say hurry up because megaprojects from the global marketplace — hotels, offices and factories — are sprouting all over the place, products of the opening […]
by Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-New York City) In 1890, Jacob Riis’ groundbreaking book How the Other Half Lives chronicled the lives of thousands of families living in squalor in New York City. A horrified public cried out for reform, and the public housing movement was born. More than 100 years have passed since Riis’ book, and […]
by Victor Bach and Sara Hovde In New York City, public housing tenants stopped a privatization proposal in an unprecedented mobilization effort. But without continuing vigilance and technical support, public housing tenants will find themselves left out of decisions that directly affect their lives. National Context If the federal devolution of public housing becomes a […]
by Tom Angotti A Response to Timothy Ross It’s not the housing, Mr. Ross, it’s the people. They don’t care what kind of housing poor people live in. They just don’t like them if they’re poor and not white. If there were no people of color in the projects, I’ll bet Congress would be giddily […]
by Jacqueline Leavitt In New Zealand, there is no nonprofit third sector between public housing and the market. Tenants are organizing to keep rents down, limit privatization and create new “third-stream” alternatives. The Labour Party: The Unlikely Handmaiden In 1984, under the Fourth Labour Party government, New Zealand became the cradle of the great experiment […]
By Timothy Ross Progressives face a dilemma in thinking about public housing. Many progressives support public housing because it helps low income people who are otherwise disadvantaged in a capitalist economy. Indeed, over a million people live in public housing projects, and most are the very poor with few other options. As currently constructed, however, […]
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