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Of the some sixty thousand vacant properties in Philadelphia, half of them are abandoned row houses. Street-level entrepreneurs re purposing hundreds of these empty houses as facilities for recovering addicts and alcoholics. This book presents a study of this recovery house movement and its place in the new urban order wrought by welfare reform.

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    A Paperback / softback by Robert P. Fairbanks

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 1 September 2009
      ISBN-13 9780226234090
      978-0226234090
      ISBN-10 0226234096
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Of the some sixty thousand vacant properties in Philadelphia, half of them are abandoned row houses. Street-level entrepreneurs re purposing hundreds of these empty houses as facilities for recovering addicts and alcoholics. This book presents a study of this recovery house movement and its place in the new urban order wrought by welfare reform.

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