Thanks for Everything (Now Get Out)

Can We Restore Neighborhoods without Destroying Them?

Thanks for Everything (Now Get Out)
Joseph Margulies
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Hardback
h22 x 14mm - 304pg
7 Jan 2022 US
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9780300250015
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A radical rethinking of how to make distressed urban neighborhoods more livable while preserving the residents' ability to live there When a distressed urban neighborhood gentrifies, all the ratios change: poor to rich; Black and Brown to white; unskilled to professional; uninsured to insured; food insecure to food secure. Vacant lots become condos, junkyards become parks, and trendy new restaurants open. But the people who originally lived there-enduring miserable conditions for years and working hard to change them-are gradually driven out. For them, the neighborhood hasn' t been restored so much as destroyed. Focusing on the Olneyville section of Providence, Rhode Island, Joseph Margulies asks, Can we rebuild such neighborhoods without setting the stage for their destruction? Is failure the inevitable cost of success? His answer is based on years of interviews and on-the-ground observation. Margulies argues for innovative and practical strategies of self-government and advocates for a new form of organization-the "neighborhood trust"-to give low-income residents ownership and control of assets to allow them to chart their own future.
"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-and tackles the toughest question of all: In restoring these places, do we set them up for destruction? "-Alex Kotlowitz, author of An American Summer, winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize "Thanks for Everything, Now Get Out not only provides insights into the systemic challenges low-income neighborhoods face but tangible solutions for neighborhood-controlled outcomes. It' s time to stop locking people out of their own power. "-Adriana Abizadeh, Kensington Corridor Trust "Thanks for Everything (Now Get Out) provides a necessary framework for answering basic questions about the political and economic forces that dismantled a neighborhood, and offers a vision for rebuilding. Moving, insightful, and necessary, this is a book you will want to read. "-Noliwe Rooks, author of Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education "In this meticulous case study of one impoverished urban neighborhood in the Northeast, Margulies argues-convincingly-that it just might be possible to restore blighted neighborhoods without destroying them. A gripping read that will change how you think about neighborhood change. "-Kathryn Edin, coauthor of $2 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
Joseph Margulies is a civil rights attorney and Professor of the Practice of Law and Government at Cornell University. His most recent book is What Changed When Everything Changed: 9/11 and the Making of National Identity.
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ISBN-13: 9780300250015
Published: 7 Jan 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Yale University Press
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 22mm
Width: 14mm
Pages: 304

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