Thanks for Everything (Now Get Out): Can We Restore Neighborhoods without Destroying Them?

Synopsis

When a distressed urban neighborhood gentrifies, all the ratios change: poor to rich; Black and Brown to white; unskilled to professional; vulnerable to secure. Vacant lots and toxic dumps become condos and parks. Upscale restaurants open and pawn shops close. But the low-income residents who held on when the neighborhood was at its worst, who worked so hard to make it better, are gradually driven out. For them, the neighborhood hasn&’t been restored so much as destroyed. Tracing the history of Olneyville, a neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island, that has traveled the long arc from urban decay to the cusp of gentrification, Joseph Margulies asks the most important question facing cities today: Can we restore distressed neighborhoods without setting the stage for their destruction? Is failure the inevitable cost of success? Based on years of interviews and on-the-ground observation, Margulies argues that to save Olneyville and thousands of neighborhoods like it, we need to empower low-income residents by giving them ownership and control of neighborhood assets. His model for a new form of neighborhood organization—the &“neighborhood trust&”—is already gaining traction nationwide and promises to give the poor what they have never had in this country: the power to control their future.

Copyright:

2021

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

304 Pages

ISBN-13:

9780300262988

Related ISBNs:

9780300250015

Publisher:

Yale University Press

Date of Addition:

10/19/21

Copyrighted By:

Joseph Margulies.

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Politics and Government, Sociology

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