The poorhouse: subsidized housing in Chicago

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Chicago seems an ideal environment for public housing because of the city's relatively young age among major cities and well-deserved reputation for technology, innovation, and architecture. Yet The Poorhouse: Subsidized Housing in Chicago shows that the city's experience on the whole has been a negative one, raising serious questions about the nature of subsidized housing and whether we should have it and, if so, in what form. Bowly, a native of the city, provides a detailed examination of sub…

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Full title :The poorhouse : subsidized housing in Chicago / Devereux Bowly Jr.

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Publication Date:©2012.
Edition:2nd ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Southern Illinois University Press
Place of Publication:Carbondale
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2012.

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Description:1 online resource

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ISBN:9780809390687, 080939068X
oclc:ocn801409203
LC Classification:HD7304.C4
Dewey Decimal:363.5/820977311

Philanthropic housing projects -- Early public housing -- Chicago Housing Authority: the war years -- Chicago Housing Authority: the middle years -- Chicago Housing Authority: years of turmoil -- Chicago Dwellings Association -- Chicago Housing Authority: the high-rise years -- The community renewal foundation and the Kate Maremont foundation -- Federally subsidized, privately sponsored housing -- Chicago Housing Authority: the fourth decade -- The Illinois Housing Development Authority -- Chicago Housing Authority: years of decline -- Subsidized housing on other fronts -- Buildup to the transformation -- The transformation of CHA.

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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure History Illinois -- Chicago Logement social -- Histoire. -- Illinois Public housing Public housing -- History. -- Illinois SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General