| Description |
xii, 328 p. : ill., maps. |
| Series |
Cities and contemporary society |
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Cities and contemporary society.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Public housing -- Illinois -- Chicago.
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Low-income housing -- Illinois -- Chicago.
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Public housing -- Government policy -- United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Bennett, Larry, 1950-
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Smith, Janet L., 1962-
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Wright, Patricia A.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
0765610752 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780765610751 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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