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100			_aDeslippe, Dennis _939144
245			_aAs in a Civics Text Come to Life”: The East Brooklyn Congregations’ Nehemiah Housing Plan and “Citizens Power” in the 1980s
260			_bSage, _c2019.
300			_aVol 45, Issue 5, 2019 (1030-1049 p.)
520			_aIn the early 1980s the East Brooklyn Congregations (EBC) began to build the first of 4,500 affordable, single-family homes, known as Nehemiah Houses. This essay examines how the EBC’s many trained local clergy and lay church members forged a potent body of ideas that drew on civic republicanism, nineteenth century populism, and the rich religious traditions of neighborhood churches to bring about the localization of author and decision making in the Plan’s rationale, design, building, process, and price. I argue that, as a “citizens power organization,” it succeeded in countering neoliberal solutions to urban decline that focused on privatization, deregulation, and subsidies to private developers. The adoption of the Nehemiah Plan elsewhere illustrates the cross-fertilization among citizen power organizations. In turn, the EBC took up new projects for East Brooklyn, including a living wage campaign launched first in Baltimore in the early 1990s.
650			_aNew York City, _939145
650			_a affordable housing, _934119
650			_a community organizing, _939146
650			_a urban politics, _939147
650			_a religion _939148
773	0		_011044 _915476 _dSage, 2019. _tJournal of urban history
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/0096144219855025
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