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Show me a hero / Lisa Belkin.
In 1988, a federal judge ordered the city of Yonkers, New York, to integrate more thoroughly its low-income housing throughout the city. It set off a bitter dispute that would consume the town for the next five years. Lisa Belkin penetrates the prejudices, myths, and heated emotions stirred by this landmark case in riveting detail, showing how a proposal to build scattered-site public housing in predominantly white middle-class neighborhoods nearly destroyed an entire city and forever changed the lives of many of its citizens. Public housing projects are being torn down throughout the United States. What will take their place? A sweeping yet intimate portrait of the effects of public policy on individual human lives. Lisa Belkin is a columnist for the New York Times.
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- ISBN: 9780316088640q (2000 pbk.)
- ISBN: 0316088641 (2000 pbk.)
- ISBN: 0316088056 (1999 hc.)
- Physical Description: xv, 331 p. ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: Boston : Back Bay Books, 2000, c1999.
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| General Note: | "The story of an urban tragedy -- and of the housing revolution that is changing America's neighborhoods"--Cover. |
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