Where are poor people to live? : transforming public housing communities /
Where are poor people to live? : transforming public housing communities /
Larry Bennett, Janet L. Smith, and Patricia A. Wright, editors.
- Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, ©2006.
- 1 online resource (xii, 328 pages) : illustrations, maps
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- Cities and contemporary society .
- Cities and contemporary society. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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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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.
Electronic reproduction.
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2010.
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English.
9780765621726 (electronic bk.) 076562172X (electronic bk.) 0765610752 9780765610751 1280912219 9781280912214 1315698188 9781315698182 9786610912216 6610912211 9781317452089 (e-book) 1317452089 (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Title subscribed to via ProQuest Academic Complete
Public housing--Illinois--Chicago.
Low-income housing--Illinois--Chicago.
Public housing--Government policy--United States.
Logement social--Illinois--Chicago.
Pauvres--Logement--Illinois--Chicago.
Logement social--Politique gouvernementale--États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Infrastructure.
Low-income housing.
Public housing.
Public housing--Government policy.
Sozialer Wohnungsbau
Política habitacional--Estados unidos.
Illinois--Chicago.
United States.
Chicago, Ill.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HD7288.78.U52 / C495 2006eb
363.5/850977311
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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.
Use copy
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.
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
English.
9780765621726 (electronic bk.) 076562172X (electronic bk.) 0765610752 9780765610751 1280912219 9781280912214 1315698188 9781315698182 9786610912216 6610912211 9781317452089 (e-book) 1317452089 (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Title subscribed to via ProQuest Academic Complete
Public housing--Illinois--Chicago.
Low-income housing--Illinois--Chicago.
Public housing--Government policy--United States.
Logement social--Illinois--Chicago.
Pauvres--Logement--Illinois--Chicago.
Logement social--Politique gouvernementale--États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Infrastructure.
Low-income housing.
Public housing.
Public housing--Government policy.
Sozialer Wohnungsbau
Política habitacional--Estados unidos.
Illinois--Chicago.
United States.
Chicago, Ill.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HD7288.78.U52 / C495 2006eb
363.5/850977311