More than shelter
Subtitle: activism and community in San Francisco public housing
By: Amy L. Howard
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780816665815; 9780816665822
Subjects: Housing Authority of the City and County of San Francisco; Public housing
Description: "In the popular imagination, public housing tenants are considered, at best, victims of intractable poverty and, at worst, criminals. More Than Shelter makes clear that such limited perspectives do not capture the rich reality of tenants' active engagement in shaping public housing into communities. By looking closely at three public housing projects in San Francisco, Amy L. Howard brings to light the dramatic measures tenants have taken to create--and sustain and strengthen--communities that mattered to them. Taken together, the stories Howard tells challenge assumptions about public housing and its tenants and make way for a broader, more productive and inclusive vision of the public housing program in the United States."--Back cover.
Notes: The author's thesis (Ph. D.), College of William and Mary, 2005.

"A Quadrant book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: To provide decent, safe, and sanitary housing : San Francisco's housing authority; title: The contested Mission of Valencia Gardens; title: Peace and prosperity dwell among virtuous neighbors : Chinatown's public housing; title: The best project in town : North Beach place; title: Conclusion: looking back, moving forward.