How Civic Action Works: Fighting for Housing in Los Angeles
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How Civic Action Works: Fighting for Housing in Los Angeles
By (Author) Paul Lichterman
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
22nd February 2021
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Housing and homelessness
Urban communities
Housing law
363.50979494
Physical Properties
Hardback
312
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
Description
The ways that social advocates organize to fight unaffordable housing and homelessness in Los Angeles, illuminated by a new conceptual framework for studying collective action How Civic Action Works renews the tradition of inquiry into collective, social problem solving. Paul Lichterman follows grassroots activists, nonprofit organization staff,
Author Bio
Paul Lichterman is professor of sociology and religion at the University of Southern California. He is author of the award-winning books Elusive Togetherness (Princeton) and The Search for Political Community, and the coeditor of The Civic Life of American Religion.
