House by house, block by block

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Not long ago, neighborhoods such as the South Bronx, South Central Los Angeles, and Boston's Roxbury were crime-ridden wastelands of vacant lots and burned-out buildings, notorious symbols of urban decay. In House by House, Block by Block, Alexander von Hoffman tells the remarkable stories ofhow local activists and community groups helped turn these areas around. For sixty years, federal policy has attempted with little success to solve the problems of housing and poverty in America's inner cities. Yet increasingly, local organizations are picking up where Washington has left off. In a series of dramatic and colorful narratives, von Hoffman shows howthese groups are revitalizing once desperate neighborhoods in five major cities: New York, Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, and Los Angeles...

subjects: Inner cities,  Urban renewal,  Urban Community development,  Nonfiction,  Urban policy,  Politics,  Case studies,  Community development, united states,  Rénovation urbaine,  Développement communautaire urbain,  Cas, Études de,  Quartiers pauvres,  Politique urbaine,  Stadtentwicklung,  Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer

Places: United States