How Civic Action Works: Fighting for Housing in Los Angeles

by Paul Lichterman

Book Overview

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, and community service volunteers in three coalitions and twelve organizations in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691212333
• ISBN13: 9780691212333
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"