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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... built on the edge of the city , far from any substantial residential areas , and without mass transit except for limited bus service , provision had to be made for many community facilities . They included a Board of Health station ...
... built in the metropolitan area outside of Chicago . By 1956 the Chi- cago total had risen to only 13,625 , but the suburbs built 48,632 units that year.1 The postwar construction in Chicago's suburban areas did much to alleviate the ...
... built at the end of World War II in 1944 , is called the George Washington Carver Garden Homes , and is lo- cated on a split site on either side of Michigan Avenue at 37th Street . It was built by the late Newton Farr and his large Loop ...
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List of Illustrations | 2 |
Michigan Boulevard Garden Apartments | 9 |
Marshall Field Garden Apartments courtyard | 15 |
Copyright | |
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