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100 1 Philp, Drew,|eauthor.
245 12 A $500 house in Detroit :|brebuilding an abandoned home
and an American city|h[Hoopla electronic resource] /|cDrew
Philp.
250 Unabridged.
264 1 [United States] :|bSimon & Schuster Audio,|c2017.
264 2 |bMade available through hoopla
300 1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 53 min.)) :
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511 0 Read by Jacques Roy.
520 A young college grad buys a house in Detroit for $500 and
attempts to restore it-and his new neighborhood-to its
original glory in this deeply felt, sharply observed
personal quest to create meaning and community out of the
fallen…A standout. Drew Philp, an idealistic college
student from a working-class Michigan family, decides to
live where he can make a difference. He sets his sights on
Detroit, the failed metropolis of abandoned buildings,
widespread poverty, and rampant crime. Arriving with no
job, no friends, and no money, Philp buys a ramshackle
house for five hundred dollars in the east side
neighborhood known as Poletown. The roomy Queen Anne he
now owns is little more than a clapboard shell on a
crumbling brick foundation, missing windows, heat, water,
electricity, and a functional roof. A $500 House in
Detroit is Philp's raw and earnest account of rebuilding
everything but the frame of his house, nail by nail and
room by room. Philp is a great storyteller…[and his]
engrossing tale is also of a young man finding his footing
in the city, the country, and his own generation. We
witness his concept of Detroit shift, expand, and evolve
as his plan to save the city gives way to a life forged
from political meaning, personal connection, and
collective purpose. As he assimilates into the community
of Detroiters around him, Philp guides readers through the
city's vibrant history and engages in urgent conversations
about gentrification, racial tensions, and class warfare.
Part social history, part brash generational statement,
part comeback story, A $500 House in Detroit shines [in
its depiction of] the 'radical neighborliness' of ordinary
people in desperate circumstances. This is an
unforgettable, intimate account of the tentative revival
of an American city and a glimpse at a new way forward for
generations to come.
538 Mode of access: World Wide Web.
600 10 Philp, Drew|xHomes and haunts|zMichigan|zDetroit.
650 0 Dwellings|xRemodeling|zMichigan|zDetroit.
650 0 Urban renewal|zMichigan|zDetroit|xCitizen participation.
650 0 Subculture|zMichigan|zDetroit.
650 0 Community development|zMichigan|zDetroit.
650 0 Working class white people|zMichigan|zDetroit|vBiography.
650 0 African Americans|zMichigan|zDetroit|xSocial conditions
|y21st century.
650 0 Generation Y|vBiography.
651 0 Detroit (Mich.)|vBiography.
651 0 Detroit (Mich.)|xRace relations.
700 1 Roy, Jacques|q(Jacques David),|enarrator.
710 2 hoopla digital.
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