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This groundbreaking book shows how major shifts in federal policy are spurring local public housing authorities to demolish their high-rise, low-income developm
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For the past two decades the United States has been transforming distressed public housing communities, with three ambitious goals: replace distressed developme
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Integrating the Inner City
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Authors: Robert J. Chaskin
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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 t
Purging the Poorest
Language: en
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Authors: Lawrence J. Vale
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The building and management of public housing is often seen as a signal failure of American public policy, but this is a vastly oversimplified view. In Purging