The Poor Side of Town
Husock, Howard A.![The Poor Side of Town](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/356/35669430/CHSBZCOP0335669430.jpg)
This book combines a critique of more than a century of housing reform policies, including public and other subsidized housing as well as exclusionary zoning, with the idea that simple low-cost housing-a poor side of town-helps those of modest means build financial assets and join in the local democratic process. It is more of a historical narrative than a straight policy book, however-telling stories of Jacob Riis, zoning reformer Lawrence Ve...