Growing Up in NYC Public Housing
Growing Up Poor
Growing Up Poor by Terry Moses Wiliams & William Kornblum, 1985, Lexington Books
This ethnographic study looks at teenagers trapped in poverty—how some succeed in the struggle to get out and others finally give up trying.
It is an outgrowth of interviews with some 900 teens in New York City, Cleveland, Louisville, and Meridian, Mississippi. The neighborhoods where they live are socially and racially diverse. Among them are white areas slding into poverty as traditional blue-collar jobs in smokestack industries fade away, and black and Hispanic neighborhoods where chronic unemployment has long been the prevailing tradition and fact of life.
It was written together with Terry Williams.
Terry Williams: The Cosmopolitan Life of an Urban Ethnographer
The Uptown Kids: Struggle and Hope in the Projects
The Uptown Kids: Struggle and Hope in the Projects, by Terry M. Williams & William Kornblum, 1994, Putnam
Inner-city housing projects can be good places to rear children. Parents in the projects struggle against great odds to instill in their children the values we all cherish. A Harlem renaissance is taking place today, spearheaded by teenagers who are producing a new world culture of music, art, and fashion.
Robert Schrank, Ford Foundation
Robert Schrank, Center Moriches, NY 11934, October 19, 1917 – June 7, 2012
Bob funded our research on youth in low income American communities. Later he became a close friend and mentor. especially on the rebuilding of Victor. A former machinist, “Schrank” could do magic with wood and steel.
NYCHA Housing Authority
NYCHA serves 312,422 authorized residents in 156,865 apartments within 251 housing developments through the conventional public housing program (Section 9).
With a total of 520,808 PEOPLE, NYCHA IS LARGER THAN The official city populations of ATLANTA, MIAMI, AND NEW ORLEANS
