Changes in Housing Conditions, Chicago, 1960-1964
Title | Changes in Housing Conditions, Chicago, 1960-1964 PDF eBook |
Author | Chicago (Ill.). Community Renewal Program |
Publisher | |
Pages | 12 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | Housing |
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Tenement Conditions in Chicago
Title | Tenement Conditions in Chicago PDF eBook |
Author | City Homes Association, Chicago |
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Pages | 220 |
Release | 1901 |
Genre | Chicago (Ill.) |
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U.S. Census of Housing, 1960
Title | U.S. Census of Housing, 1960 PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | 364 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | East Chicago (Ind.) |
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Residence Change, Income, and Education, City of Chicago, 1950-1960
Title | Residence Change, Income, and Education, City of Chicago, 1950-1960 PDF eBook |
Author | Chicago (Ill.). Department of Urban Renewal. Research Section |
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Pages | 16 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | Education |
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Housing and Race in Chicago
Title | Housing and Race in Chicago PDF eBook |
Author | Chicago Urban League |
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Pages | 28 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | African Americans |
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Blueprint for Disaster
Title | Blueprint for Disaster PDF eBook |
Author | D. Bradford Hunt |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 2009-08-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0226360873 |
Now considered a dysfunctional mess, Chicago’s public housing projects once had long waiting lists of would-be residents hoping to leave the slums behind. So what went wrong? To answer this complicated question, D. Bradford Hunt 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, he 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 primarily to 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 failure. Moreover, administrators who fully understood the potential drawbacks did not try to halt such deeply flawed projects as Cabrini-Green and the Robert Taylor Homes. These massive high-rise complexes housed unprecedented numbers of children but relatively few adults, engendering disorder that pushed out the working class and, consequently, the rents needed to maintain the buildings. The resulting combination of fiscal crisis, managerial incompetence, and social unrest plunged the CHA into a quagmire from which it is still struggling to emerge. Blueprint for Disaster, then,is an urgent reminder of the havoc poorly conceived policy can wreak on our most vulnerable citizens.
Changes in Population and Housing Unit Counts in Census Tract and Community Areas in the City of Chicago 1950-1960-1970
Title | Changes in Population and Housing Unit Counts in Census Tract and Community Areas in the City of Chicago 1950-1960-1970 PDF eBook |
Author | Chicago (Ill.). Department of Development and Planning |
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Release | 1972 |
Genre | Housing |
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