How it works [electronic resource] : recovering citizens in post-welfare Philadelphia / Robert P. Fairbanks II.
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- 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
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- HV4196.P5 F347 2009eb
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-292) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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