Urban Policy in the Time of Obama (Volume 26) (Globalization and Community)

Synopsis

With His Background As A Community Organizer And As A State Legislator Representing Chicago?s South Side, Barack Obama Became America?s Most ?urban? President Since Teddy Roosevelt. But What Has Been His Record In Dealing With The Issues Most Impacting Our Metropolitan Areas Today? Looking Past The Current Administration, What Are The Future Prospects Of The Nation?s Cities, And How Have They Been Shaped By Our Policies In This Century? Seeking To Answer These Questions, The Contributors To Urban Policy In The Time Of Obama Explore A Broad Range Of Policy Arenas That Shape, Both Directly And Indirectly, Metropolitan Areas And Urbanization Processes. This Volume Reveals The Obama Administration?s Surprisingly Limited Impact On Cities, Through Direct Policy Initiatives Such As Strong Cities, Strong Communities, Promise Neighborhoods, And Choice Neighborhood Initiatives. There Has Been Greater Impact With Broader Policies That Shape Urban Life And Governance, Including Immigration Reform, Education, And Health Care. Introduction / James Defilippis -- 1. National Urban Policy In The Age Of Obama / Hilary Silver -- 2. The Subordination Of Urban Policy In The Time Of Financialization / Robert W. Lake -- 3. Obama, Race, And Urban Policy / Preston H. Smith Ii -- 4. Housing Policy And The Mortgage Foreclosure Crisis During The Obama Administration / Rachel G. Bratt And Dan Immergluck -- 5. Public Housing Policy Under Obama (see The Clinton Administration) / Janet Smith -- 6. Immigrants And The Obama Urban Policies: Tarnishing The Golden Door / Christine Thurlow Brenner -- 7. Obama's Education Policy: More Markets, More Inequality, New Urban Contestations / Pauline Lipman -- 8. Unions In The Obama Era: Laboring Under False Pretenses? / Nik Theodore -- 9. A Work Still In Progress. The Achievements And Shortcomings Of The Affordable Care Act / J. Phillip Thompson -- 10. Still Swimming, Tides Rising: Community Change, Spatial Interventions, And The Challenge Of Federal Place-based Anti-poverty Public Policies / Amy T. Khare -- 11. Community Development In The Age Of Obama / Kathe Newman -- 12. The Incompleteness Of Comprehensive Community Revitalization / Todd Swanstrom -- 13. The Obama Administration's Neighborhood Stabilization Program: From Foreclosure Crisis To What In Nashville's Chestnut Hill? / Deirdre Oakley And James Fraser -- 14. Sustainable Fair Housing? Reconciling The Spatial Goals Of Fair Housing And Sustainable Development In The Obama Administration / Edward G. Goetz -- 15. Regional Policy In The Age Of Obama / Karen Chapple -- 16. Making Policy In The Streets / Lorraine C. Minnite And Frances Fox Piven -- Conclusion. Why Urban Policy? On Social Justice, Urbanization, And Urban Policies / James Defilippis -- Afterword: Baltimore, The Policing Crisis, And The End Of The Obama Era / Cedric Johnson. James Defilippis, Editor ; Afterword By Cedric Johnson. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.