Climbing Mount Laurel: The Struggle for Affordable Housing and Social Mobility in an American Suburb

List of Illustrations ix List of Tables xi Preface xiii Chapter 1. Location Cubed: The Importance of Neighborhoods 1 Chapter 2. Suburban Showdown: The Mount Laurel Controversy 32 Chapter 3. Field of Dreams: Ethel Lawrence Homes Come to Mount Laurel 51 Chapter 4. Rhetoric and Reality: Monitoring Mount Laurel 64 Chapter 5. Neighborly Concerns: Effects on Surrounding Communities 80 Chapter 6. All Things Considered: Neighbors' Perceptions a Decade Later 100 Chapter 7. Greener Pastures: Moving to Tranquility 121 Chapter 8. Tenant Transitions: From Geographic to Social Mobility 147 Chapter 9. Affordable Housing: Suburban Solutions to Urban Problems 184 Appendices 197 References 245 Index 261