Carol Lamberg

Broschiertes Buch

Housing Security

A Section 8 Memoir

Beschreibung

I believe that housing is a human right. In the United States, a very wealthy country, there is no excuse for homelessness. Section 8 of the Housing Act that established public housing was revised in 1974 to create an important new program. The revised Section 8 program provided federal funds to help households afford the rent in existing housing. The program also gave developers assistance to create new or renovated affordable housing. I was an advocate for the program when it was enacted in 1974, and I proposed a successful amendment allowing large families to pay only 15 percent of income for rent. The book includes a brief history of earlier housing programs. Then I discuss President Nixon's housing moratorium and the study that led to Section 8. I have a chapter about Carla A. Hills, President Ford's housing Secretary, who was very effective and productive. A case study shows how Section 8 helped performing artists, leading to the revival of Times Square in Manhattan. In other chapters, I analyze costs and the budget and discuss President Reagan's unfortunate programmatic changes. I include brief interviews with seven Section 8 tenants from New York, Washington State, and Florida. The final chapter is a summary of my recommendations for expanding and improving the current program.

Autor

Carol Lamberg was the Executive Director of the Settlement Housing Fund from 1983 until her retirement in February 2014. She had worked on the stä of Settlement Housing since its inception in 1969. Before that, she was Vice President of Roger Schafer Associates, housing consultants, where she worked for the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church, Knickerbocker Hospital, and the Settlement Housing Fund, among others. The Settlement Housing Fund has produced over 8,900 apartments in 58 developments, retaining ownership through partnerships or äliates, of more than 25 buildings with nearly 2,000 apartments in Brooklyn, the Bronx, Harlem, Washington Heights and lower Manhattan. Most of the developments that Settlement Housing now owns are mixed-income buildings, occupied by families with incomes ranging from public assistance levels to about $85,000. These developments often include community amenities and programs. Ms. Lamberg served as a consultant for 12 developments for senior citizens owned by settlement houses and other nonpro¿t organizations. She was also Stä Director and co-founder of the New York Housing Conference before becoming Co-Chair from 2008 to 2016, and she is now the only Life Trustee. In that capacity, she drafted amendments to the Housing Act of 1937, the National Housing Act, and the New York State Private Housing Finance Law. She has written policy studies and articles for housing and architectural journals, contributed op-ed articles, and testi¿ed before legislative bodies, commissions, and government agencies. She served as Regional Vice President of the National Housing Conference. She is on the boards of New Settlement Apartments, RISE, Rockaway, the Two Bridges Neighborhood Council, and the Citizens Housing and Planning Council. She is a graduate of Radcli¿e College and was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University. She has written a book, "Neighborhood Success Stories," describing the Two Bridges urban renewal area on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and the largest development under the late Mayor Koch's housing program. This development, located in the Bronx, is owned by an äliate of Settlement Housing Fund. The book was published by Fordham University Press in May 2018. The Borough Presidents of Manhattan and the Bronx have written short forwards. She is currently working on a second book about the history and future of Section 8.Ms. Lamberg received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the New York Housing Conference in 2013. She has also won awards from the National Housing Conference, the Citizens Housing and Planning Council, LISC, Flemister House, Hamilton-Madison House, and the American Institute of Architects of New York.Carol Lamberg lives in Manhattan with her partner, Prof. Donald Pfä. Her grown children, Andrew and Donna Bernstein, and her stepchildren, Lisa and Tom Barbash, live in Paris, San Diego, Cambridge, and San Francisco, respectively.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bookwrights House
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 234g
• ISBN-13: 9781965552056
• ISBN-10: 1965552056
• Artikelnr.: 71862013