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Public Housing Myths is a much-needed antidote to the prevailing understanding of public housing's role, its record, and its reputation. The authors in this volume interrogate the common (mis)perceptions about the program and by doing so provide a deeper and truer understanding of the program. -Edward G. Goetz, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and Director of the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs at the University of Minnesota, author of New Deal Ruins: Race, Economic Justice, and Public Housing Policy Public Housing Myths is a valuable collection of essays on an important topic. It presents a strong case for a reassessment of the conventional wisdom on public housing by challenging a number of persistent myths. The issues raised here are timely indeed, as policymakers, planners, architects, and scholars in a variety of disciplines continue to grapple with the thorny problem of providing decent and affordable housing to people in all socioeconomic strata of society. -Roger Biles, Illinois State University, coeditor of From Tenements to the Taylor Homes: In Search of an Urban Housing Policy in Twentieth-Century America

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Nicholas Dagen Bloom is Associate Professor of Social Sciences and chair of Interdisciplinary Studies at New York Institute of Technology. He is the author most recently of Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century. Fritz Umbach is Associate Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY). He is the author of The Last Neighborhood Cops: The Rise and Fall of Community Policing In New York's Public Housing. Lawrence J. Vale is Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author most recently of Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities.

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