Carol Lamberg

Neighborhood Success Stories (eBook, PDF)

Creating and Sustaining Affordable Housing in New York

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The high cost of building affordable housing in New York, and cities like it, has long been a topic of urgent debate. Yet despite its paramount importance and the endless work of public and private groups to find ways to provide it, affordable housing continues to be an elusive commodity in New York City-and increasingly so in our current economic and political climate. In a timely, captivating memoir, Carol Lamberg weighs in on this vital issue with the lessons she learned and the successes she won while working with the Settlement Housing Fund, where she was executive director from 1983 until 2014. Lamberg provides a unique perspective on the great changes that have swept the housing arena since the curtailment of the welfare state in the 1970s, and spells out what is needed to address today's housing problems. In a tradition of big city social work memoirs stretching back to Jane Addams, Lamberg reflects on the social purpose, vision, and practical challenges of the projects she s been involved in, while vividly capturing the life and times of those who engaged in the creation and maintenance of housing and those who have benefited from it. Using a wealth of interviews with managers and residents alike, alongside the author s firsthand experiences, this book depicts examples of successful community development between 1975 and 1997 in the Bronx and on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. In the West Bronx Story, Lamberg details the painful but ultimately exhilarating development of eighteen buildings that comprise New Settlement Apartments a dramatic transformation of a devastated neighborhood into a thriving community. In A Tale of Two Bridges, the author depicts a different path to success, along with its particular challenges. The redevelopment of this area on the Lower East Side involved six different Federal housing programs and consisted of six residential sites, a running track, and a large scale supermarket. To this day, forty years later, all the buildings remain strong. With Neighborhood Success Stories, Lamberg offers a roadmap to making affordable housing a reality with the key ingredients of dogged persistence, group efforts, and creative coalition building. Her powerful memoir provides hope and practical encouragement in times that are more challenging than ever.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780823279227
• Artikelnr.: 72448079

Autorenporträt

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.