Examines the effects of legalized casino gambling in Atlantic City on employment, housing, crime, economic growth, and social conditions

The Atlantic City Gamble

Business & Money

Sternlieb, George

Economics

Harvard Univ Pr

In November 1976, the state of New Jersey embarked upon a bold experiment when the voters approved a referendum to authorize casino gambling in Atlantic City. Expectations were high: the gaming industry could rejuvenate a dying city core, employment would swell, the tax base would broaden and welfare rolls diminish, tourism might spread through the state, and the cruel spectacle of a poverty-stricken community would be eliminated.The Atlantic City Gamble reports the results of this experiment and evaluates casinos as a tool for economic revitalization, a painless source of revenue. The casinos are enormously profitable―but for whom? The city has paid a huge toll in human and economic hardship. There are 30,000 new jobs, but little spillover into non-casino employment. Crime rates have skyrocketed. Housing has been priced beyond the reach of minority groups and the elderly. In 1982, the casinos paid more than $117 million in state taxes, but much of the projected bonanza to Atlantic City has been swallowed by the industry’s need for expanded municipal services, such as police protection. Fears of the old connection between gambling and organized crime may be exaggerated, but few can deny that the gaming industry―with its immense daily cash flow―harbors a vast potential for corruption.The state promoted visions of a glorious rebirth, but it failed to provide a governing mechanism that could produce the promised rewards. Would better planning and research enable any government to cope with such instant large-scale business and the political clout it carries? Economic strangulation has motivated at least eight other states to think about letting in casinos. The decisions they make will have far-reaching social and economic consequences, and must be based on a set of facts as accurate and comprehensive as possible. In searching out the lessons of Atlantic City, the authors have provided a sobering glimpse into the intricacies of legalized gambling.

The Atlantic City Gamble: A Twentieth Century Fund Report (Twentieth Century Fund Books/Reports/Studies)

Hughes, James W.

Industries

Harvard University Press

The zone of emergence;: A case study of Plainfield, New Jersey (Urban studies series)

Transaction Books; distributed by Dutton [New York

The basic ecology of human groups—the relationship between the distribution of population and material resources and the resultant social and cultural patterns—is a subject which has occasioned far more talk than down-to-earth research. Filling this gap, George Sternlieb and Bernard Indik consider one dimension of human ecology— the interplay between housing and outlook, between the physical realities of a dwelling unit and the attitudes and responses of its inhabitants. Their book, The Ecology of Welfare, presents a detailed description of the housing and housing problems of one special subgroup-New York City's welfare recipients in the 1970's.

The Ecology of Welfare: Housing and the Welfare Crisis in New York City (Urban Studies Series (New Brunswick, N.J.), No. 3.)

Politics & Social Sciences

Indik, Bernard P

Sociology

Routledge

Tax Subsidies and Housing Investment: A Fiscal Cost-benefit Analysis

This important work brings together the new tools necessary for the prime urban development initiative of the 1980s. The Enterprise Zone, the most important new concept in job vitalization, was formulated in England, advocated by Reagan, and has the support of both parties. This, as well as the National Development Bank, a new Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and the estimation of municipal costs and revenues from job development are discussed in detail.

New Tools for Economic Development

This volume represents the most current thinking on the course and direction of future planning. The collection of invited papers frorri the field's foremost experts are grouped by four key areas: <ul>
<li> Physical Planning In Change: The Role of Environmental Planning</li> <li> Social Planning In Change: Practical Applications of Social Sensitivity </li> <li> Public Policy Planning In Change: Macroplannlng versus Local Control </li> <li> Economic Planning In Change: National Planning—Demand versus Supply Emphases</li> </ul>
 The concepts and practices embodied here here are key inputs for the planning practitioner and the academic.

Planning Theory in the 1980s: A Search for Future Directions

Burchell, Robert W.

Social Sciences

Rutgers Univ Center for Urban

Why are Denver and Houston floundering? Yet downtown Chicago is holding its own and Manhattan is the hottest real estate market in the country? Is frost coming to the Sunbelt? Where are the new markets? What does Hi-Tech really mean to development? Is American industry doomed to follow England? The baker's dozen of essays in this new book provides an unparalleled range of insight and hard-nosed answers. They range from housing to the central city; from job prospects to the impact of technology on retailing. The stress is on the big picture of changes in demography, the economy, and government. But it is geared to provide practical answers for the tough questions of where we are going-and how to understand the processes which are shaping the future. The book starts with Housing: 1. The Housing Locomotive and the Demographic Caboose 2. Structuring the Future: Housing and the Social Compact 3. A Review of Past Policies and Future Directions in Housing 4. Housing the Poor in a Post-Shelter Society 5. HUD—A Study in Power and Piety And then turns to the Central City: 6. The Central City in America 7. The City in a National Economic Context 8. The Uncertain Future of the Central City It pulls both sections together by looking at the new success story— New York City: 9. Housing in New York: Matrix and Microcosm 10. New York and the Post-Industrial Era And, finally, places the New Economic Imperatives of society in perspective: 11. Frost on the Sunbelt: Thaw in the North 12. Information Technology, Demographics and the Retail Response 13. American Industry: The Continuous Revolution

Patterns of Development

This is the long-awaited update of the authors' classic America's Housing: Prospects and Problems. The first version has long been the most authoritative effort in the field. Now this brief, efficient, one-volume work contains all the most up-to-date data available to chart housing progress and need. Forecasts on future demographics, production trends, and changes in markets are clearly presented for the use of students and practitioners. More than 100 tables help summarize the current reality in a convenient, simple format. The major chapter topics indicate the comprehensiveness of the coverage:  The Demographic Framework; Housing Demand: The Population Baseline; The Household Revolution; The Maturing Society and Market Segmentation; Future Households: Scale and Shape; Income: Accelerator and Brake; Housing Supply: The Potent Baseline; Housing Production Cycles; Regional Shifts Revisited; Housing Cost Structures; New Mortgage Realities; Components of Inventory Change; Scale, Condition, and Amenity; Demand-Supply Interrelationships; Housing to Come

The Dynamics of America's Housing

The basic ecology of human groups the relationship between the distribution of population and material resources and the resultant social and cultural patterns is a subject which has occasioned far more talk than down-to-earth research. Filling this gap, George Sternlieb and Bernard Indik consider one dimension of human ecology the interplay between housing and outlook, between the physical realities of a dwelling unit and the attitudes and responses of its inhabitants. Their book, The Ecology of Welfare, presents a detailed description of the housing and housing problems of one special subgroup-New York City's welfare recipients in the 1970's.

The Ecology of Welfare

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