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

Author(s)

• Bennett, Larry
• Smith, Janet L.
• Wright, Patricia A.
• Bingham, Richard D.
• Ledebur, Larry C.

Bibliographic Information

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

Larry Bennett, Janet L. Smith, and Patricia A. Wright, editors

（Cities and contemporary society）

M.E. Sharpe, c2006

• : pbk.
• : hard

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Ser. edited by: Richard D. Bingham, Larry C. Ledebur

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This groundbreaking book 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. It focuses on Chicago, and that city's affordable housing crisis, but it provides analytical frameworks that can be applied to developments in every American city. "Where Are Poor People to Live?" provides valuable new empirical information on public housing, framed by a critical perspective that shows how shifts in national policy have devolved the U.S. welfare state to local government, while promoting market-based action as the preferred mode of public policy execution. The editors and chapter authors share a concern that proponents of public housing restructuring give little attention to the social, political, and economic risks involved in the current campaign to remake public housing. At the same time, the book examines the public housing redevelopment process in Chicago, with an eye to identifying opportunities for redeveloping projects and building new communities across America that will be truly hospitable to those most in need of assisted housing. While the focus is on affordable housing, the issues addressed here cut across the broad policy areas of housing and community development, and will impact the entire field of urban politics and planning.

Table of Contents

• Introduction, Larry Bennett, Janet L. Smith, Patricia A. Wright
• Part I National and Local Context for Public Housing Transformation
• Chapter 1 Public Housing Transformation, Janet L. Smith
• Chapter 2 Public Housing's Cinderella, Yan Zhang, Gretchen Weismann
• Chapter 3 The HOPE VI Program, Susan J. Popkin
• Part II On the Ground in Chicago
• Chapter 4 The Chicago Housing Authority's Plan for Transformation, Janet L. Smith
• Chapter 5 Community Resistance to CHA Transformation, Patricia A. Wright
• Chapter 6 The Case of Cabrini-Green, Patricia A. Wright, Richard M. Wheelock, Carol Steele
• Chapter 7 A Critical Analysis of the ABLA Redevelopment Plan, Larry Bennett, Nancy Hudspeth, Patricia A. Wright
• Chapter 8 Relocated Public Housing Residents Have Little Hope of Returning, William P. Wilen, Rajesh D. Nayak
• Part III Learning from Chicago
• Chapter 9 Gautreaux and Chicago's Public Housing Crisis, William P. Wilen, Wendy L. Stasell
• Chapter 10 Mixed-Income Communities, Janet L. Smith
• Chapter 11 Downtown Restructuring and Public Housing in Contemporary Chicago, Larry Bennett
• epi Epilogue, Lorry Bennett, Janet L. Smith, Patricia A. Wright

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Details

• NCID: BA79707971
• ISBN:
  • 0765610760
  • 0765610752
• LCCN: 2006003661
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Armonk, N.Y.
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 328 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HD7288.78.U52
  • DC22 : 363.5/850977311
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Public housing -- Illinois -- Chicago
  • LCSH : Low-income housing -- Illinois -- Chicago
  • LCSH : Public housing -- Government policy -- United States
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA5882449X