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Where are poor people to live? : transforming public housing communities

Title
Where are poor people to live? : transforming public housing communities / Larry Bennett, Janet L. Smith, and Patricia A. Wright, editors.
Publication
Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, Inc., [2006], ©2006.

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  • Bennett, Larry, 1950-
  • Smith, Janet L., 1962-
  • Wright, Patricia A.
Description
xii, 328 pages : maps; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Cities and contemporary society
Uniform Title
Cities and contemporary society.
Subject
  • Public housing > Chicago
  • Low-income housing > Chicago
  • Public housing > Government policy > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
"Our fight must go on" / Rene Maxwell -- 1. Public housing transformation : evolving national policy / Janet L. Smith -- 2. Public housing's Cinderella : policy dynamics of HOPE VI in the mid-1990s / Yan Zhang and Gretchen Weismann -- 3. The HOPE VI program : what has happened to the residents? / Susan J. Popkin -- 4. The Chicago Housing Authority's plan for transformation / Janet L. Smith -- 5. Community resistance to CHA transformation : the history, evolution, struggles, and accomplishments of the Coalition to Protect Public Housing / Patricia A. Wright -- 6. The case of Cabrini-Green / Patricia A. Wright, Richard M. Wheelock and Carol Steele -- 7. A critical analysis of the ABLA redevelopment plan / Larry Bennett, Nancy Hudspeth and Patricia A. Wright -- 8. Relocated public housing residents have little hope of returning : work requirements for mixed-income public housing developments / William P. Wilen and Rajesh D. Nayak -- 9. 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 -- 10. Mixed-income communities : designing out poverty or pushing out the poor? / Janet L. Smith -- 11. Downtown restructuring and public housing in contemporary Chicago : fashioning a better world-class city / Larry Bennett.
ISBN
0765610752 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2006003661
  • 9780765610751
OCLC
  • OCM63660522
  • SCSB-9047054
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries