Name: Blueprint for Disaster: The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing (Historical Studies of Urban America) (en Inglés)
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Author: D. Bradford Hunt
ISBN: 9780226360867

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Univ Of Chicago Pr

Autor

D. Bradford Hunt

Año

2010

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

380

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Peso

1.20

ISBN

0226360865

ISBN13

9780226360867

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Blueprint for Disaster: The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing (Historical Studies of Urban America) (en Inglés)

D. Bradford Hunt (Autor) · Univ Of Chicago Pr · Tapa Blanda

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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.