Good Places to Live: Poverty and Public Housing in Canada

by Jim Silver

Book Overview

Public housing projects are stigmatized and stereotyped as bad places to live, as havens of poverty, illegal activity and violence. In many cities they are being bulldozed, ostensibly for these reasons but also because the land on which they are located has become so valuable. In Good Places to Live, Jim Silver argues that the problems with which it is so often associated are not inherent to public housing but are the result of structural inequalities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552664147
• ISBN13: 9781552664148
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"