The politics of public housing [electronic resource] : Black women's struggles against urban inequality / by Rhonda Y. Williams.

Creating "a little heaven for poor people": decent housing and respectable communities
"A woman can understand": dissidence in 1940s' public housing
Shifting landscapes in postwar Baltimore
"When then came the change": the fight against disrepute
"An awakening giant": the search for poor people's political power
"Sunlight at early dawn": economic struggles, public housing and welfare rights.