How It Works: Recovering Citizens in Post-Welfare Philadelphia - Robert P. Fairbanks - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226234090 - September 1, 2009
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How It Works: Recovering Citizens in Post-Welfare Philadelphia

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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.


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

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