Thanks for Everything (Now Get Out)

"With piercing insights, Joe Margulies compellingly traces the history of one neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island, a stand-in for distressed neighborhoods around the country. This utterly original book takes on many of our assumptions about race, poverty, and gentrification—and tackles the toughest question of all: In restoring these places, do we set them up for destruction?"—Alex Kotlowitz, author of An American Summer, winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize

"Thanks for Everything, Now Get Out not only provides insights into the systemic challenges low-income neighborhoods face but tangible solutions for neighborhood-controlled outcomes. It’s time to stop locking people out of their own power."—Adriana Abizadeh, Kensington Corridor Trust

"Thanks for Everything (Now Get Out) provides a necessary framework for answering basic questions about the political and economic forces that dismantled a neighborhood, and offers a vision for rebuilding. Moving, insightful, and necessary, this is a book you will want to read."—Noliwe Rooks, author of Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education

"In this meticulous case study of one impoverished urban neighborhood in the Northeast, Margulies argues—convincingly—that it just might be possible to restore blighted neighborhoods without destroying them. A gripping read that will change how you think about neighborhood change."—Kathryn Edin, coauthor of $2 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America