Where are poor people to live? : transforming public housing communities /

Where are poor people to live? : transforming public housing communities /

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Imprint:Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, ©2006.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 328 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:English
Series:Cities and contemporary society
Cities and contemporary society.
Subject:
Public housing -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Low-income housing -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Public housing -- Government policy -- United States.
Low-income housing.
Public housing.
Public housing -- Government policy.
Illinois -- Chicago.
United States.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11162759
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Other authors / contributors:Bennett, Larry, 1950-
Smith, Janet L., 1962-
Wright, Patricia A.
ISBN:9780765621726
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:Shows how major shifts in federal policy are spurring local public housing authorities to demolish their high-rise, low-income developments, and replace them with affordable low-rise, mixed income communities. This book focuses on Chicago, and that city's affordable housing crisis.
Other form:Print version: Where are poor people to live?. Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, ©2006 0765610752 9780765610751
Table of Contents:
  • "Our fight must go on" / Rene Maxwell.
  • Introduction / Larry Bennett, Janet L. Smith, and Patricia A. Wright.
  • I. National and local context for public housing transformation. Public housing transformation: evolving national policy / Janet L. Smith ; Public housing's Cinderella: policy dynamics of HOPE VI in the mid-1990s / Yan Zhang and Gretchen Weismann ; The HOPE VI program: what has happened to the residents? / Susan J. Popkin.
  • II. On the ground in Chicago: reshaping public housing communities. The Chicago Housing Authority's plan for transformation / Janet L. Smith ; Community resistance to CHA transformation: the history, evolution, struggles, and accomplishments of the Coalition to Protect Public Housing / Patricia A. Wright ; The case of Cabrini-Green / Patrica A. Wright, with Richard M. Wheelock and Carol Steele ; A critical analysis of the ABLA redevelopment plan / Larry Bennett, Nancy Hudspeth, and Patricia A. Wright ; Relocated public housing residents have little hope of returning: work requirements for mixed-income public housing developments / William P. Wilen and Rajesh D. Nayak.
  • III. Learning from Chicago: prospects and challenges for policy makers. Gautreaux and Chicago's public housing crisis: the conflict between achieving integration and providing decent housing for very low-income African Americans / William P. Wilen and Wendy L. Stasell ; Mixed-income communities: designing out poverty or pushing out the poor? / Janet L. Smith ; Downtown restructuring and public housing in contemporary Chicago: fashioning a better world-class city / Larry Bennett.
  • Epilogue / Larry Bennett, Janet L. Smith, and Patricia A. Wright.

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