Where are poor people to live? : transforming public housing communities
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Where are poor people to live? : transforming public housing communities
(Cities and contemporary society)
M.E. Sharpe, c2006
- : pbk.
- : hard
Available at 10 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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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