TY - BOOK AU - Bloom,Nicholas Dagen TI - Public housing that worked: New York in the twentieth century AV - HD7288.78.U52 N726 2008 U1 - 363.5/85097471 22 PY - 2008///] CY - Philadelphia PB - University of Pennsylvania Press KW - New York City Housing Authority KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Public housing KW - New York (State) KW - New York KW - City planning KW - New York (N.Y.) KW - Social conditions KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-348) and index; Model housing as a municipal service. Defining a housing crisis; Three programs are better than one; High-rise public housing begins; Model tenants for model housing; Tightly managed communities -- Transforming postwar New York. The boom years; Designs for a new metropolis; The price of design reform; The benefits of social engineering; Meeting the management challenge -- Welfare-state public housing. Surviving the welfare state; The value of consistency -- Affordable housing. Model housing revisited -- Appendix A. Guide to housing developments -- Appendix B. Tenant selection policies and procedures UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3442400 ER -