Lawrence Vale explores the rise, fall, and redevelopment of three public housing projects in Boston. Vale looks at these projects from the perspectives of their

The building and management of public housing is often seen as a signal failure of American public policy, but this is a vastly oversimplified view. In Purging

America is in the midst of a rental housing affordability crisis. More than a quarter of those that rent their homes spend more than half of their income for ho

This groundbreaking book shows how major shifts in federal policy are spurring local public housing authorities to demolish their high-rise, low-income developm