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Where are poor people to live?
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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.
| Title |
Where are poor people to live? : transforming public housing communities / Larry Bennett, Janet L. Smith, and Patricia A. Wright, editors. |
|---|---|
| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Publisher |
London New York : Routledge |
| Creation Date |
2015 |
| Notes |
First published 2006 by M.E. Sharpe. Includes bibliographical references and index. English |
| Content |
"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. |
| Series |
Cities and contemporary society |
| Extent |
1 online resource (344 p.) |
| Language |
English |
| National Library system number |
997010709803005171 |
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