Title: How it works
Subtitle: recovering citizens in post-welfare Philadelphia
First published: 2009
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.
Subjects: Self-help housing, Political aspects of Recovery movement, Government policy, Informal sector (Economics), Social settlements, Political aspects of Self-help housing, Housing, Substance abuse treatment facilities, Welfare recipients, Alcoholics, Political aspects of Informal sector (Economics), Social conditions, Recovery movement, Rehabilitation, Housing, united states, Substance abuse, treatment, Kensington (philadelphia, pa.), Philadelphia (pa.), economic conditions, Philadelphia (pa.), social conditions, Political aspects
Places: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Kensington (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Time periods: 21st century
LC classification: HV4196.P5 F347 2009