TY  - BOOK
AU  - Massey,Douglas S.
AU  - Albright,Len
AU  - Casciano,Rebecca
AU  - Kinsey,David N.
TI  - Climbing Mount Laurel: The Struggle for Affordable Housing and Social Mobility in an American Suburb 
SN  - 9780691157290
AV  - HD7287.96.U62 N552 2020
U1  - 363.583 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Housing
KW  - New Jersey
KW  - Mount Laurel (Township)
KW  - Low-income housing
KW  - Social mobility
KW  - Zoning, Exclusionary
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; List of Tables --; Preface --; Chapter 1. Location Cubed: The Importance of Neighborhoods --; Chapter 2. Suburban Showdown: The Mount Laurel Controversy --; Chapter 3. Field of Dreams: Ethel Lawrence Homes Come to Mount Laurel --; Chapter 4. Rhetoric and Reality: Monitoring Mount Laurel --; Chapter 5. Neighborly Concerns: Effects on Surrounding Communities --; Chapter 6. All Things Considered: Neighbors' Perceptions a Decade Later --; Chapter 7. Greener Pastures: Moving to Tranquility --; Chapter 8. Tenant Transitions: From Geographic to Social Mobility --; Chapter 9. Affordable Housing: Suburban Solutions to Urban Problems --; Appendices --; References --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Under the New Jersey State Constitution as interpreted by the State Supreme Court in 1975 and 1983, municipalities are required to use their zoning authority to create realistic opportunities for a fair share of affordable housing for low- and moderate-income households. Mount Laurel was the town at the center of the court decisions. As a result, Mount Laurel has become synonymous with the debate over affordable housing policy designed to create economically integrated communities. What was the impact of the Mount Laurel decision on those most affected by it? What does the case tell us about economic inequality?Climbing Mount Laurel undertakes a systematic evaluation of the Ethel Lawrence Homes--a housing development produced as a result of the Mount Laurel decision. Douglas Massey and his colleagues assess the consequences for the surrounding neighborhoods and their inhabitants, the township of Mount Laurel, and the residents of the Ethel Lawrence Homes. Their analysis reveals what social scientists call neighborhood effects--the notion that neighborhoods can shape the life trajectories of their inhabitants. Climbing Mount Laurel proves that the building of affordable housing projects is an efficacious, cost-effective approach to integration and improving the lives of the poor, with reasonable cost and no drawbacks for the community at large
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