Brian J. Mccabe

No Place Like Home

Wealth, Community and the Politics of Homeownership

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Produktbeschreibung

In No Place Like Home, Brian McCabe challenges the ideology of homeownership as a tool for building stronger communities and crafting better citizens. McCabe argues that homeowners often engage in their communities as a way to protect their property values, and this participation leads to the politics of exclusion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP US
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 405g
• ISBN-13: 9780190270469
• ISBN-10: 0190270462
• Artikelnr.: 47863667

Autorenporträt

Brian J. McCabe is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction: Wealth, Community and the Politics of
Homeownership; Chapter 2: Selling the Citizen Homeowner: The Civic Roots of
the American Dream; Chapter 3: Building a Nation of Homeowners: Federal
Housing Policy in the Twentieth Century; Chapter 4: Building Wealth?
Property Values and Civic Habits of Homeowners; Chapter 5: Building
Community? Homeownership and the Politics of Exclusion; Chapter 6:
Subsidizing a Nation of Homeowners: Rethinking Federal Homeownership
Subsidies; Chapter 7: Conclusion: Citizenship in a Nation of Homeowners