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Integrating the Inner City - The Promise and Perils of Mixed-Income Public Housing Transformation (Paperback)
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Integrating the Inner City - The Promise and Perils of Mixed-Income Public Housing Transformation (Paperback)
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For many years Chicago's looming large-scale housing projects
defined the city, and their demolition and redevelopment via the
Chicago Housing Authority's Plan for Transformation has been
perhaps the most startling change in the city's urban landscape in
the last twenty years. The Plan, which reflects a broader policy
effort to remake public housing in cities across the country, seeks
to deconcentrate poverty by transforming high-poverty public
housing complexes into mixed-income developments and thereby
integrating once-isolated public housing residents into the social
and economic fabric of the city. But is the Plan an ambitious
example of urban regeneration or a not-so-veiled effort at
gentrification? In the most thorough examination of mixed-income
public housing redevelopment to date, Robert J. Chaskin and Mark L.
Joseph draw on five years of field research, in-depth interviews,
and volumes of data to demonstrate that while considerable progress
has been made in transforming the complexes physically, the
integrationist goals of the policy have not been met. They provide
a highly textured investigation into what it takes to design,
finance, build, and populate a mixed-income development, and they
illuminate the many challenges and limitations of the policy as a
solution to urban poverty. Timely and relevant, Chaskin and
Joseph's findings raise concerns about the increased privatization
of housing for the poor while providing a wide range of
recommendations for a better way forward.
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