The Poorhouse: Subsidized Housing in ChicagoChicago 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 subsidized housing in the nation’s third-largest city. Now in its second edition, The Poorhouse looks at the history of public housing and subsidized housing in Chicago from 1895 to the present day. Five new chapters that cover the decline and federal takeover of the Chicago Housing Authority, and its more recent “transformation,” which involved the demolition of the CHA family high-rise buildings and in some cases their replacement with low-risemixed income housing on the same sites. Fifty new photos supplement this edition. |
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... South Side by private developers , but they were not subsidized . Both of them , however , anticipated in many respects the design of later housing in the city , both sub- sidized and nonsubsidized . They are both composed of two ...
... South Side , the West Side , and the north lakefront from about Division Street to Bryn Mawr Avenue . Many of them are twenty- to twenty - five - story concrete buildings , con- taining perhaps 200 units , and often located near the ...
Subsidized Housing in Chicago Devereux Bowly. Community building . The South ... South Commons was about one - half completed , it had families with annual ... Side , is the Lawless Gardens Apartments . It is located just east of King ...
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List of Illustrations | 2 |
Michigan Boulevard Garden Apartments | 9 |
Marshall Field Garden Apartments courtyard | 15 |
Copyright | |
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