Rachael A. Woldoff is Associate Professor of Sociology at West Virginia University. She is the author of White Flight / Black Flight: The Dynamics of Racial Change in an American Neighborhood, winner of the 2013 Best Book in Urban Affairs Award given by the Urban Affairs Association. Lisa M. Morrison is a Social Affairs Officer at the United Nations in New York City and a contributing author to the Report on the World Social Situation. Michael R. Glass is Lecturer of Urban Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and the co-editor of Performativity, Politics, and the Production of Social Space.
The book is notable both for the intrinsic interest of its topic
and the quality of its analysis. Part community study and part
elegy, Priced Out documents the rise and fall of what increasingly
looks to have been a missed opportunity to foster a sustainable
middle-class in the heart of New York City. The rent regulations
that made StuyTown a haven for civil servants and other
middle-class New Yorkers have been steadily eroded. This process
stretches far beyond StuyTown, of course, and threatens to erase
New York City’s middle class from the city’s core. Using a variety
of qualitative methods, the authors tell this important story in
convincing fashion and show why it matters.
*Journal of Urban Affairs*
An important, interesting, and compelling look at the impact of
housing policy on a community, and the decline of middle-income
housing in an increasingly stratified city.
*City & Community*
Priced Out tells a true story about how hard it is for renters of
modest income to make a home in the center of Americas biggest
city. Both historical and timely, it documents in lively detail how
the largest, postwar, private-sector, urban housing development in
the U.S. turned into one of the most notorious real estate deals of
the early 21st century, and how developers pursuit of 'luxury'
projects threatens New Yorks middle class.
*Sharon Zukin,author of Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic
Urban Places*
We increasingly think of Manhattan as a place of the very rich and
the very poor. Yet thanks to modest, non-market rate post war
housing developments, tens of thousands of middle class New Yorkers
who might otherwise have decamped to the suburbs continue to live
in the heart of the City. Over the decades they have built
communities, raised families, aged in place and helped to keep New
York diverse and vital. Priced Out tells the story of what happens
when a communitys right to the city collides with the forces of the
free market. It is a must read for anyone concerned about the
future of the urban middle class.
*Philip Kasnitiz,co-author of Inheriting the City: The Children of
Immigrants Come of Age*
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