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

Integrating the Inner City: The Promise and Perils of Mixed-Income Public Housing Transformation
ISBN-10
022616439X
ISBN-13
9780226164397
Category
History
Pages
347
Language
English
Published
2015-11-13
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Authors
Robert J. Chaskin, Mark L. Joseph

Description

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."

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