Lamberg Neighborhood Success Stories

Creating and Sustaining Affordable Housing in New York
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-8232-7922-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten

This book illustrates examples of successful community development on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and in the Bronx, using seven different methods of finance, only one of which is still available today. The buildings were developed between 1975 and 1997.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lamberg, Carol

Weitere Mitwirkende

Brewer, Gale A.

Diaz, Ruben

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Gale A. Brewer ix

Foreword by Ruben Diaz, Jr. xi

Part I: Overview

1 Housing Issues and Experiences 3

2 Getting Started at Settlement Housing Fund 11

Part II: A West Bronx Story

3 Walton and Townsend 19

4 Deciding to Own and Competing to Win 30

5 Collaborations and Battles 39

6 Here Come the Families 49

7 The Stucco Falls Off and the Playground Collapses 61

8 Finding Jack 67

9 Community Programs, Philosophy, and Achievements 76

10 New Settlement Community Campus: The Schools, Center, and Pool 83

11 A Few of the Families 103

12 New Settlement Today 127

Part III: A Tale of Two Bridges

13 Two Bridges: The Early Years 137

14 Two Bridges Houses 143

15 Lands End I 152

16 Lands End II 163

17 The Pathmark 172

18 Two Bridges Townhouses 180

19 Two Bridges Senior Housing 187

20 Two Bridges Tower 195

21 The Future for Two Bridges 213

Part IV: Looking Ahead

22 Lessons and Recommendations 219

Appendix: List of Federal, State, and Local Programs 243

Acknowledgments 247

Index 249

Über Autor(innen)

Lamberg Carol:
Carol Lamberg was Executive Director of the Settlement Housing Fund from 1983 until she retired in 2014.Carol Lamberg (Author)
Carol Lamberg was Executive Director of the Settlement Housing Fund from 1983 until she retired in 2014.