Where are Poor People to Live?: Transforming Public Housing Communities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Where are Poor People to Live?: Transforming Public Housing Communities write by Larry Bennett. This book was released on 2015-03-26. Where are Poor People to Live?: Transforming Public Housing Communities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Public Housing and the Legacy of Segregation
Public Housing and the Legacy of Segregation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Public Housing and the Legacy of Segregation write by Margery Austin Turner. This book was released on 2009. Public Housing and the Legacy of Segregation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For the past two decades the United States has been transforming distressed public housing communities, with three ambitious goals: replace distressed developments with healthy mixed-income communities; help residents relocate to affordable housing, often in the private market; and empower former public housing families toward economic self-sufficiency. The transformation has focused on deconcentrating poverty, but not on the underlying role of racial segregation in creating these distressed communities. In Public Housing and the Legacy of Segregation, scholars and public housing officials assess whether--and how--public housing policies can simultaneously address the problems of poverty and race.
Integrating the Inner City
Integrating the Inner City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Integrating the Inner City write by Robert J. Chaskin. This book was released on 2015-11-13. Integrating the Inner City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Chicago Housing Authority s Plan for Transformation repudiated the city s large-scale housing projects and the paradigm that produced them. The Plan seeks to normalize public housing and its tenants, eliminating physical, social, and economic barriers among populations that have long been segregated from one another. But is the Plan an ambitious example of urban regeneration or a not-so-veiled effort at gentrification? Is it resulting in integration or displacement? What kinds of communities are emerging from it? Chaskin and Joseph s book is the most thorough examination of the Plan to date. Drawing on five years of field research, in-depth interviews, and data, Chaskin and Joseph examine the actors, strategies, and processes involved in the Plan. Most important, they illuminate the Plan s limitations which has implications for urban regeneration strategies nationwide."
Purging the Poorest
Purging the Poorest - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Purging the Poorest write by Lawrence J. Vale. This book was released on 2013-04-15. Purging the Poorest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The building and management of public housing is often seen as a signal failure of American public policy, but this is a vastly oversimplified view. In Purging the Poorest, Lawrence J. Vale offers a new narrative of the seventy-five-year struggle to house the “deserving poor.” In the 1930s, two iconic American cities, Atlanta and Chicago, demolished their slums and established some of this country’s first public housing. Six decades later, these same cities also led the way in clearing public housing itself. Vale’s groundbreaking history of these “twice-cleared” communities provides unprecedented detail about the development, decline, and redevelopment of two of America’s most famous housing projects: Chicago’s Cabrini-Green and Atlanta’s Techwood /Clark Howell Homes. Vale offers the novel concept of design politics to show how issues of architecture and urbanism are intimately bound up in thinking about policy. Drawing from extensive archival research and in-depth interviews, Vale recalibrates the larger cultural role of public housing, revalues the contributions of public housing residents, and reconsiders the role of design and designers.
No Simple Solutions
No Simple Solutions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook No Simple Solutions write by Susan J. Popkin. This book was released on 2016-10-07. No Simple Solutions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, Sue Popkin tells the story of how an ambitious—and risky—social experiment affected the lives of the people it was ultimately intended to benefit: the residents who had suffered through the worst days of crime, decay, and rampant mismanagement of the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA), and now had to face losing the only home many of them had known. The stories Popkin tells in this book offer important lessons not only for Chicago, but for the many other American cities still grappling with the legacy of racial segregation and failed federal housing policies, making this book a vital resource for city planners and managers, urban development professionals, and anti-poverty activists.
