Thanks for Everything (Now Get Out): Can We Restore Neighborhoods Without Destroying Them? - Hardcover

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<b>A radical rethinking of how to make distressed urban neighborhoods more livable while preserving the residents&#8217; ability to live there</b><br> &#160;<br><b>&#8220;With piercing insights, Joe Margulies compellingly traces the history of one neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island, a stand-in for distressed neighborhoods around the country. This utterly original book takes on many of our assumptions about race, poverty, and gentrification&#8212; and tackles the toughest question of all: In restoring these places, do we set them up for destruction?&#8221;&#8212;Alex Kotlowitz, author of <i>An American Summer</i></b><br> &#160;<br> When a distressed urban neighborhood gentrifies, all the ratios change: poor to rich; Black and Brown to white; unskilled to professional; vulnerable to secure. Vacant lots and toxic dumps become condos and parks. Upscale restaurants open and pawn shops close. But the low-income residents who held on when the neighborhood was at its worst, who worked so hard to make it better, are gradually driven out. For them, the neighborhood hasn&#8217;t been restored so much as destroyed.<br> &#160;<br> Tracing the history of Olneyville, a neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island, that has traveled the long arc from urban decay to the cusp of gentrification, Joseph Margulies asks the most important question facing cities today: Can we restore distressed neighborhoods without setting the stage for their destruction? Is failure the inevitable cost of success? Based on years of interviews and on-the-ground observation, Margulies argues that to save Olneyville and thousands of neighborhoods like it, we need to empower low-income residents by giving them ownership and control of neighborhood assets. His model for a new form of neighborhood organization&#8212;the &#8220;neighborhood trust&#8221;&#8212;is already gaining traction nationwide and promises to give the poor what they have never had in this country: the power to control their future.

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