How it works
Subtitle: recovering citizens in post-welfare Philadelphia
By: Robert P. Fairbanks II.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780226234083; 9780226234090
Subjects: Self-help housing -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia; Self-help housing -- Political aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia; Recovery movement -- Political aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia; Social settlements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia; Welfare recipients -- Housing -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia; Alcoholics -- Rehabilitation -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia; Substance abuse treatment facilities -- Government policy -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia; Informal sector (Economics) -- Political aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia; Kensington (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Description: 'How it Works' examines the phenomenon of the 'recovery house movement' in Philadelphia. Often unlicensed and unregulated, these facilities provide shelter for recovering addicts and alcoholics using abandoned row houses in the most deprived areas of the city.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The making of AHAD; title: "How it works": the basic architecture of the Kensington recovery house system; title: The art of building programmatic space; title: The persistent (failures) of the recovery house system: low wage, labor, relapse, and the wreckage of the past; title: Unruly spaces of managed persistence; title: Statecraft/self-craft: policy transfer in the recovery house movement; title: Conclusion