Title How it works [electronic resource] : recovering citizens in post-welfare Philadelphia / Robert P. Fairbanks II.

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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

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Description	1 online resource (x, 298 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-292) and index.
Contents	Introduction -- The making of AHAD -- "How it works": the basic architecture of the Kensington recovery house system -- The art of building programmatic space -- The persistent (failures) of the recovery house system: low wage, labor, relapse, and the wreckage of the past -- Unruly spaces of managed persistence -- Statecraft/self-craft: policy transfer in the recovery house movement -- Conclusion.
Summary	Of the some sixty thousand vacant properties in Philadelphia, half of them are abandoned row houses. Taken as a whole, these derelict homes symbolize the city's plight in the wake of industrial decline. But a closer look reveals a remarkable new phenomenon--street-level entrepreneurs repurposing hundreds of these empty houses as facilities for recovering addicts and alcoholics. How It Works is a compelling study of this recovery house movement and its place in the new urban order wrought by welfare reform. To find out what life is like in these recovery houses, Robert P. Fairbanks II goes insid.
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Subject	Self-help housing -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
	Self-help housing -- Political aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
	Recovery movement -- Political aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
	Social settlements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
	Welfare recipients -- Housing -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
	Alcoholics -- Rehabilitation -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
	Substance abuse treatment facilities -- Government policy -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
	Informal sector (Economics) -- Political aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
	Kensington (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Fairbanks, Robert P., II, 1968- How it works. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009 9780226234090 9780226234090 (DLC) 2008054100 (OCoLC)298128773
ISBN	9780226234113 (electronic bk.)
	0226234118 (electronic bk.)
	9780226234083 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
	0226234088 (hardcover. ; alk. paper)
	9780226234090 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
	0226234096 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Standard No.	9786612426384

Title How it works [electronic resource] : recovering citizens in post-welfare Philadelphia / Robert P. Fairbanks II.

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