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Where are poor people to live? : transforming public housing communities / Larry Bennett, Janet L. Smith, and Patricia A. Wright, editors.
Lippincott Library HD7288.78.U52 C495 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cities and contemporary society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public housing--Illinois--Chicago.
- Public housing.
- Low-income housing--Illinois--Chicago.
- Low-income housing.
- Public housing--Government policy--United States.
- Public housing--Government policy.
- United States.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 328 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, Inc., [2006]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0765610752
- OCLC:
- 63660522
- Publisher Number:
- 9780765610751
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