How it Works: Recovering Citizens in Post-welfare Philadelphia

by RPFairbanks (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $35.93

  Of the some sixty thousand vacant properties in Philadelphia, half of them are abandoned row houses. Street-level entrepreneurs re purposing hundreds of these empty houses as facilities for recovering addicts and alcoholics. This book presents a study of this recovery house movement and its place in the new urban order wrought by welfare reform.