| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 328 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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polychrome |
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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. |
| 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. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
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 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Public housing -- Illinois -- Chicago.
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Public housing. |
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Illinois -- Chicago. |
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Low-income housing -- Illinois -- Chicago.
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Low-income housing. |
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Public housing -- Government policy -- United States.
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Public housing -- Government policy. |
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United States. |
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Electronic books.
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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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| Other Form: |
Print version: Where are poor people to live?. Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, ©2006 0765610752 9780765610751 (DLC) 2006003661 (OCoLC)63660522 |
| ISBN |
9780765621726 (electronic book) |
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076562172X (electronic book) |
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0765610752 |
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9780765610751 |
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1280912219 |
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9781280912214 |
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0765610752 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780765610751 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0765610760 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780765610768 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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