Driven from New Orleans How Nonprofits Betray Public Housing and Promote Privatization

Name: Driven from New Orleans How Nonprofits Betray Public Housing and Promote Privatization
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ISBN: 9780816677474

ISBN-10: 0816677476

ISBN-13: 9780816677474

Edition: 2012

Authors: John Arena

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In the early 1980s the tenant leaders of the New Orleans St. Thomas public housing development and their activist allies were militant, uncompromising defenders of the city’s public housing communities. Yet ten years later these same leaders became actively involved in a planning effort to privatize and downsize their community—an effort that would drastically reduce the number of affordable apartments. What happened? John Arena—a longtime community and labor activist in New Orleans—explores this drastic change inDriven from New Orleans, exposing the social disaster visited on the city’s black urban poor long before the natural disaster of Katrina magnified their plight.Arena argues that…

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List price: $27.50
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 7/31/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English

Cedric Johnson is associate professor of political science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He is the author ofRevolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics(Minnesota, 2007).



Abbreviations


Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Nonprofits and the Revanchist Agenda



Confronting the New Boss: Struggles for Home and Community in the Postsegregation Era, 1965-1985



Undoing the Black Urban Regime: Resistance to Displacement and Elite Divisions, 1986-1988



Neoliberalism and Nonprofits: Selling Privatization at St. Thomas, 1989-1995



No Hope in HOPE VI: Dismantling Public Housing from the Nation to the Neighborhood



When Things Fall Apart: From the Dreams of St. Thomas to the Nightmare of River Gardens, 1996-2002



Whose City Is It? Hurricane Katrina and the Struggle for New Orleans's Public Housing, 2003-2008



Managing Contradictions: The Coalition to Stop the Demolitions


Conclusion: Lessons from New Orleans


Notes


Index