Issues facing public housing in Yonkers and the people who live with the results.
Note
"Now an HBO miniseries."
Includes new foreword by screenwriter David Simon, and new epilogue by Lisa Belkin.
Original Version
Reprint with new material of work originally published: Boston : Little, Brown, 1999.
Summary
In 1987, Nick Wasicsko became the mayor of Yonkers just as the city was ordered by a Federal judge to create new public housing in previously restricted areas of the city. The story follows the judge, the young mayor, the politicians, the innovative planning consultant, the homeowners and the new tenants, and hopes of and stresses on each.-- Summary by cataloger.
