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How It Works: Recovering Citizens in Post-Welfare Philadelphia Robert P. Fairbanks
How It Works: Recovering Citizens in Post-Welfare Philadelphia
Robert P. Fairbanks
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.
304 pages, 5 halftones
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | September 1, 2009 |
| ISBN13 | 9780226234090 |
| Publishers | The University of Chicago Press |
| Pages | 312 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 10 mm · 482 g |