Integrating the Inner City: The Promise and Perils of Mixed-Income Public Housing Transformation

by Robert J. Chaskin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022647819X
• ISBN13: 9780226478197
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 363 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"