Where are poor people to live? : transforming public housing communities / Larry Bennett, Janet L. Smith, and Patricia A. Wright, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bennett, Larry, 1950-

Smith, Janet L., 1962-

Wright, Patricia A.

Series:

Cities and contemporary society.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2006.

Language Note:

English

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.

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:

First published 2006 by M.E. Sharpe.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-317-45208-9

1-315-69818-8

1-280-91221-9

9786610912216

0-7656-2172-X

9781315698182

OCLC:

476082101