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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: unseen politics of public housing
    sub title: resident councils, communities, and change
  name:
    name part: Chenault, Tiffany Gayle
    name part: 1974-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Alexander Street (Firm)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xviii, 131 pages)
  abstract: The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) emphasizes the word 'community' for building economic development, citizen participations, and revitalization of facilities and services in urban and rural areas. Resident Councils are one way to develop and build community among residents of public housing. Despite HUD stressing community building in public housing and investing money and policies around it, there are some resident councils that are not fulfilling the expectations of HUD. This book is my attempt to describe and explain HUD's expectations for the resident council as an active agent for community building and the actual practices of the resident council. I argue that policies and regulations of resident councils which exist to support the effectiveness of the resident council in creating and implementing community-building, self-sufficiency, and empowerment activities and goals in a public housing community may do more harm than good. The Department of Housing and Urban Development invests and spends billions on Public Housing Programs (6.6 billion in 2013). The majority of the 1.2 million people who live in public housing do not live in large urban areas with thousands of people confined to a certain space. The majority of public housing units (90%) have fewer than 500 units. These smaller units and the people that live in them tend to go unnoticed. This ethnographic case study focuses on explaining and understanding the factors and constraints that exist between HUD's expectations for the resident council as an active agent for community building and the actual practices of the resident council. To explain the disjunction -- in fact, to determine if such disjunctions identified by Rivertown council members are real. Using the tenets of Critical Race Theory allows us to understand what forces -- either real or imagined, structural or cultural -- prevent the resident council from being an effective agent for change in the public housing community.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Welcome to rivertown -- Code for community engagement -- Who's leading the council -- Rules for organizing a council -- Not fitting the public housing image : location and communication -- Meeting and manager dynamics -- Policy recommendations -- References -- Appendices.
  note: Tiffany Chenault.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-125) and index.
  note: In English.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Public housing
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Low-income housing
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Race relations
  subject:
    topic: Sociology, Urban
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Pauvres
    topic: Logement
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Relations raciales
  subject:
    topic: Sociologie urbaine
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
    topic: Infrastructure
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Low-income housing
  subject:
    topic: Public housing
  subject:
    topic: Race relations
  subject:
    topic: Sociology, Urban
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: HD7288.78.U5
  classification: 363.5/850973
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Unseen politics of public housing
    origin info:
      publisher: Lanham ; Lexington Books, 2015
    identifier: (DLC) 2015010212
  identifier: 9780739165089
  identifier: 0739165089
  identifier: 9780739165065
  identifier: 0739165062
  identifier: 2021675484
  identifier: 6C311056-0C1C-4D64-903B-68693E7706F9 OverDrive, Inc.
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150316
    record change date: 20250331202554.0
    record identifier: in00005640565
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng