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Urban Policy in the Time of Obama /

With his background as a community organizer and as a state legislator representing Chicago?s South Side, Barack Obama became America?s most?urban? president since Teddy Roosevelt. But what has been his record in dealing with the issues most impacting our metropolitan areas today? Looking past the c...

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Otros Autores: DeFilippis, James (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. National Urban Policy in the Age of Obama
  • 2. The Subordination of Urban Policy in the Time of Financialization
  • 3. Obama, Race, and Urban Policy
  • 4. Housing Policy and the Mortgage Foreclosure Crisis during the Obama Administration
  • 5. Public Housing Policy under Obama (See the Clinton Administration)
  • 6. Immigrants and the Obama Urban Policies: Tarnishing the Golden Door
  • 7. Obama's Education Policy: More Markets, More Inequality, New Urban Contestations
  • 8. Unions in the Obama Era: Laboring under False Pretenses?
  • 9. A Work Still in Progress: The Achievements and Shortcomings of the Affordable Care Act
  • 10. Still Swimming, Tides Rising: Community Change, Spatial Interventions, and the Challenge of Federal Place-based Antipoverty Public Policies
  • 11. Community Development in the Age of Obama
  • 12. The Incompleteness of Comprehensive Community Revitalization
  • 13. The Obama Administration's Neighborhood Stabilization Program: From Foreclosure Crisis to What in Nashville's Chestnut Hill?
  • 14. Sustainable Fair Housing? Reconciling the Spatial Goals of Fair Housing and Sustainable Development in the Obama Administration
  • 15. Regional Policy in the Age of Obama
  • 16. Making Policy in the Streets
  • Conclusion. Why Urban Policy? On Social Justice, Urbanization, and Urban Policies
  • Afterword: Baltimore, the Policing Crisis, and the End of the Obama Era
  • Contributors
  • Index
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