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Book SynopsisTrade Review"DeFilippis brings together a series of insightful analyses that focus on the urban policies of the Obama administration from different but interrelated perspectives."—Choice
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction
James DeFilippis
1. National Urban Policy in the Age of Obama
Hilary Silver
2. The Subordination of Urban Policy in the Time of Financialization
Robert W. Lake
3. Obama, Race, and Urban Policy
Preston H. Smith II
4. Housing Policy and the Mortgage Foreclosure Crisis During the Obama Administration
Rachel G. Bratt and Dan Immergluck
5. Public Housing Policy under Obama (See the Clinton Administration)
Janet Smith
6. Immigrants and the Obama Urban Policies: Tarnishing the Golden Door
Christine Thurlow Brenner
7. Obama’s Education Policy: More Markets, More Inequality, New Urban Contestations
Pauline Lipman
8. Unions in the Obama Era: Laboring Under False Pretenses?
Nik Theodore
9. The Affordable Care Act: A Work Still in Progress. The Achievements and Shortcomings of the Affordable Care Act
J. Phillip Thompson
10. Still Swimming, Tides Rising: Community Change, Spatial Interventions, and the Challenge of Federal Place-based Anti-Poverty Public Policies
Amy T. Khare
11. Community Development in the Age of Obama
Kathe Newman
12. The Incompleteness of Comprehensive Community Revitalization
Todd Swanstrom
13. The Obama Administration’s Neighborhood Stabilization Program: From Foreclosure Crisis to What in Nashville’s Chestnut Hill?
Deirdre Oakley and James Fraser
14. Sustainable Fair Housing? Reconciling the Spatial Goals of Fair Housing and Sustainable Development in the Obama Administration
Edward G. Goetz
15. Regional Policy in the Age of Obama
Karen Chapple
16. Making Policy in the Streets
Lorraine C. Minnite and Frances Fox Piven
Conclusion. Why Urban Policy? On Social Justice, Urbanization, and Urban Policies
James DeFilippis
Afterword
Cedric Johnson
Contributors
Index
