Driven from New Orleans : how nonprofits betray public housing and promote privatization / John Arena.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Arena, John
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Public housing > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Nonprofit organizations > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Privatization > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Physical Description:xl, 303 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: nonprofits and the revanchist agenda
  • Confronting the new boss: struggles for home and community in the post-segregation 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' public housing, 2003/2008
  • Managing contradictions : the coalition to stop the demolitions
  • Conclusion: lessons from new orleans
  • Notes
  • Index.