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Reconciling People And Place In Housing And Community Development Policy Essay, Nestor M. Davidson
Reconciling People And Place In Housing And Community Development Policy Essay, Nestor M. Davidson
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In housing and community development theory, scholars have long debated tensions between place-based policies and those that focus on fostering mobility. In practice, this is a false dichotomy and this essay explores ways in which place-based policies change the calculus of mobility, while mobility policies deeply shape both the communities people seek and those they leave behind.
Relational Contracts In The Privatization Of Social Welfare: The Case Of Housing, Nestor M. Davidson
Relational Contracts In The Privatization Of Social Welfare: The Case Of Housing, Nestor M. Davidson
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Privatization has become a permanent and increasingly significant fixture on the landscape of contemporary public policy. Federal, state, and local governments now turn to the private sector for everything from collecting neighborhood garbage to assisting in the occupation of Iraq. As Martha Minow recently noted, "a sea change is at work," with "[p]rivate and market-style mechanisms.., increasingly employed to provide what government had taken as duties." Nowhere is this trend more pronounced, and contested, than in the privatization of social welfare. In that arena, privatization's potential to harness the experience, efficiency, and diversity of the private sector sharply clashes with …