Where are poor people to live? : transforming public housing communities / / Larry Bennett, Janet L. Smith, and Patricia A. Wright, editors

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (344 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.5/850977311
• Soggetto topico: Public housing - Illinois - Chicago; Low-income housing - Illinois - Chicago; Public housing - Government policy - United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BennettLarry <1950-> SmithJanet L. <1962-> WrightPatricia A
• Note generali: First published 2006 by M.E. Sharpe.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: "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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Where are poor people to live
• ISBN: 1-315-69818-8; 1-280-91221-9; 9786610912216; 0-7656-2172-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457722203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cities and contemporary society.