marilyn m. thomas-houston is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African American Studies and former Interim Director of the African American Studies Program at the University of Florida. Mark Schuller was formerly the organizer for the St. Paul Tenants Union. He is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Anthropology Department at University of California, Santa Barbara.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionPart 2 Zeroing (in on) the Powerless: Human Rights and HousingChapter 3 Re-Envisioning Public Housing: HOPE VI and the U.S. Federal Government's Role in Public Housing ProvisionChapter 4 Lead, Arsenic, PAHs, and the Relocation of HomePart 5 Devices of Power: Governing Through HousingChapter 6 Separate and Unequal: Housing Policy in Action on the Periphery of Our Nation's CapitalChapter 7 "We Came With Truth": Black Women's Struggles Against Public Housing PolicyPart 8 Homing In: Power of the State to Define RealityChapter 9 Building the Glass Box: Developing Public Housing in Suburban AreasChapter 10 The Emporer's New Clothes: The Rhetoric of Empowerment and the Reality of RelocationPart 11 More than Targets: Marginal People Changing PolicyChapter 12 'We are the First Youth': Participatory Planning in Transitional Housing from Suburban Homeless YouthChapter 13 Jamming the Meatgrinder World: Lessons Learned from the Tenants Organizing in St. PaulChapter 14 Expansion and Exclusion in Hong Kong's Squatter Resettlement Program: The Ratchet of Exclusion into Temporary and Interim Housing

This book is a useful toolkit for anyone concerned about the human right to housing, the current war on the poor, and organizing/empowering low income people. Readers will gain new insights into action strategies at the local level.

marilyn m. thomas-houston is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African American Studies and former Interim Director of the African American Studies Program at the University of Florida. Mark Schuller was formerly the organizer for the St. Paul Tenants Union. He is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Anthropology Department at University of California, Santa Barbara.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionPart 2 Zeroing (in on) the Powerless: Human Rights and HousingChapter 3 Re-Envisioning Public Housing: HOPE VI and the U.S. Federal Government's Role in Public Housing ProvisionChapter 4 Lead, Arsenic, PAHs, and the Relocation of HomePart 5 Devices of Power: Governing Through HousingChapter 6 Separate and Unequal: Housing Policy in Action on the Periphery of Our Nation's CapitalChapter 7 "We Came With Truth": Black Women's Struggles Against Public Housing PolicyPart 8 Homing In: Power of the State to Define RealityChapter 9 Building the Glass Box: Developing Public Housing in Suburban AreasChapter 10 The Emporer's New Clothes: The Rhetoric of Empowerment and the Reality of RelocationPart 11 More than Targets: Marginal People Changing PolicyChapter 12 'We are the First Youth': Participatory Planning in Transitional Housing from Suburban Homeless YouthChapter 13 Jamming the Meatgrinder World: Lessons Learned from the Tenants Organizing in St. PaulChapter 14 Expansion and Exclusion in Hong Kong's Squatter Resettlement Program: The Ratchet of Exclusion into Temporary and Interim Housing

This book is a useful toolkit for anyone concerned about the human right to housing, the current war on the poor, and organizing/empowering low income people. Readers will gain new insights into action strategies at the local level.

marilyn m. thomas-houston is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African American Studies and former Interim Director of the African American Studies Program at the University of Florida. Mark Schuller was formerly the organizer for the St. Paul Tenants Union. He is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Anthropology Department at University of California, Santa Barbara.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionPart 2 Zeroing (in on) the Powerless: Human Rights and HousingChapter 3 Re-Envisioning Public Housing: HOPE VI and the U.S. Federal Government's Role in Public Housing ProvisionChapter 4 Lead, Arsenic, PAHs, and the Relocation of HomePart 5 Devices of Power: Governing Through HousingChapter 6 Separate and Unequal: Housing Policy in Action on the Periphery of Our Nation's CapitalChapter 7 "We Came With Truth": Black Women's Struggles Against Public Housing PolicyPart 8 Homing In: Power of the State to Define RealityChapter 9 Building the Glass Box: Developing Public Housing in Suburban AreasChapter 10 The Emporer's New Clothes: The Rhetoric of Empowerment and the Reality of RelocationPart 11 More than Targets: Marginal People Changing PolicyChapter 12 'We are the First Youth': Participatory Planning in Transitional Housing from Suburban Homeless YouthChapter 13 Jamming the Meatgrinder World: Lessons Learned from the Tenants Organizing in St. PaulChapter 14 Expansion and Exclusion in Hong Kong's Squatter Resettlement Program: The Ratchet of Exclusion into Temporary and Interim Housing

This book is a useful toolkit for anyone concerned about the human right to housing, the current war on the poor, and organizing/empowering low income people. Readers will gain new insights into action strategies at the local level.