02228cam a2200265 4500 503788302 TxAuBib 20200305120000.0 190611s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019024268 9781250220639 1250220637 TxAuBib Kirshner, Jodie Adams. Broke : hardship and resilience in a city of broken promises / Jodie Adams Kirshner. New York : St. Martin's Press, [2019] xxiii, 342 pages. Foreword: Detroit vs. everybody / by Michael Eric Dyson -- Prologue: Springtime in Detroit -- Protagonists -- Part 1: Bankruptcy. Emergency management -- Home -- Census -- Detroit hustles harder -- Bottom line -- Exit from bankruptcy -- Part 2: Emergence. A decent home -- The architecutral imagination -- If you build it -- Having trouble getting to a job? Start your own! -- The Motor City -- City on the move -- The campaign -- Part 3: Prospects. Report cards -- The way we live now -- I'm from the government, and I'm here to help -- Nice work if you can get it -- New beginnings -- Bait and switch -- Detroit versus everybody -- Epilogue: We hope for better things. Kirshner follows seven Detroiters as they navigate life during and after their city's bankruptcy. For them, financial issues are mired within the larger ramifications of poor urban policies, restorative negligence on the state and federal level and--even before the decision to declare Detroit bankrupt in 2013--the root causes of a city's fiscal demise. Post-bankruptcy, they struggle with a broken real estate market, school system, and job market--and their lives have not improved. Kirshner makes a powerful argument that cities--the economic engine of America--are never quite given the aid that they need by either the state or federal government for their residents to survive, not to mention flourish. 20200305. Michigan Notable Book, 2020. Poor Social conditions. Urban renewal Michigan. Detroit (Mich) Economic and social conditions.