Seventy-nine oral histories from former public housing residents and staff offer powerful testament to the fact that well-designed, well-managed low-rent housing has worked, as well as a demonstration of how it could be made to work again.
Seventy-nine oral histories from former public housing residents and staff offer powerful testament to the fact that well-designed, well-managed low-r...
"Blueprint for Disaster "traces public housing s history in Chicago from its New Deal roots through current mayor Richard M. Daley s Plan for Transformation. In the process, D. Bradford Hunt chronicles the Chicago Housing Authority s own transformation from the city s most progressive government agency to its largest slumlord.
Challenging explanations that attribute the projects decline primarilyto racial discrimination and real estate interests, Hunt argues that well-intentioned but misguided policy decisions ranging from design choices to maintenance contracts also paved the road to...
"Blueprint for Disaster "traces public housing s history in Chicago from its New Deal roots through current mayor Richard M. Daley s Plan for Trans...
