Research Catalog

Title

Making housing happen : faith-based affordable housing models / edited by Jill Suzanne Shook ; foreword by John Perkins.

Publication

Eugene, Or. : Cascade Books, c2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

Shook, Jill Suzanne.

Description

xix, 312 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Alternative Title

Faith-based affordable housing models

Subjects

• Case studies
• Christian leadership > United States > Case studies
• Church work with families > Case studies
• Housing > Religious aspects > Christianity > Case studies
• Home ownership > United States > Case studies
• Low-income housing > United States > Case studies
• Housing rehabilitation > United States > Case studies
• Self-help housing > United States > Case studies
• Housing > United States > Finance > Case studies

Genre/Form

Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-295) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / John Perkins -- Introduction: Going upstream / Jill Shook -- pt. 1. The foundation. Our nation's housing crisis: a rude awakening from the American dream / Terry Carter and Jill Shook -- Ownership, land, and Jubilee justice: a biblical rationale for affordable housing / Lowell Noble with Ed Mahoney, Bert Newton, and Jill Shook -- pt. 2. Tangible structures. Introduction to chapter 3: Two models of sweat equity / Edward F. Moncrief -- Habitat for Humanity and Peachtree Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Georgia): listening to the powerful and the poor / Millard Fuller -- Introduction to chapter 4: Church of the Saviour's inward and outward journey / Marian Bray and Jill Shook -- Jubilee Housing (Washington, DC): producing a hundredfold / Susan P. Ortmeyer, Elizabeth O'Connor, and Jill Shook -- Introduction to chapter 5: Adaptive reuse model / Jill Shook with Anthony Manousos -- Ex-prison (Atlanta, Georgia) and an abandoned hospital (Chicago, Illinois) / Bob Lupton and Mary Nelson -- Introduction to chapter 6: Tenants taking ownership / Anthony Manousos, Jill Shook, and Shane Claiborne -- Change from the inside out (Los Angeles, California): tenants taking ownership / Paul A. Smith -- Introduction to chapter 7: Mixed-use and mixed-income / Jill Shook -- Point (Denver, Colorado) / Ray Stranske and Marilyn Stranske -- Introduction to chapter 8: Indigenous property management / Jill Shook with Anthony Manousos -- Raising Lazarus from the dead (Chicago, Illinois) / Richard Townsell -- Introduction to chapter 9: The co-op movement and housing co-operatives / Jill Shook and Anthony Manousos -- Mustard Tree Co-op (Detroit, Michigan): an urban search for community / Ronald Spann -- Introduction to chapter 10: The cohousing model / Thomas and Christine Sine -- Temescal Commons (Oakland, California): seeds of hope / J.R. Bergdoll Jr. -- Introduction to chapter 11: The workforce housing model / Jill Shook -- Vista Hermosa (Pasco, Washington): fruit that lasts / Roger Bairstow -- Introduction to chapter 12: Community land trusts / Jill Shook and Anthony Manousos -- HOME (Orland, Maine): Catholic land trust communities / Jill Shook -- Introduction to chapter 13: Two models of empowerment and community transformation / Jill Shook and Lee Blons -- Urban Homeworks (Minneapolis, Minnesota): from mixed income duplexes to community land trust homes / Jill Shook and Anthony Manousos with Urban Homeworks' staff -- Introduction to chapter 14: The community organizing model / Robert C. Linthicum -- Nehemiah strategy (South Bronx, New York): South Bronx churches / Lee Stuart with John Heinemeier -- pt. 3. Intangible structures. Setting the stage / Daryn Kobata, Jill Shook and Anthony Manousos -- Hopeful trends and calls for change / Jill Shook with Anthony Manousos -- Getting started / Andy Krumsieg with Jill Shook.

ISBN

• 9781620322871
• 1620322870

OCLC

• 815749268
• SCSB-11280753

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library