Now considered a dysfunctional mess, ChicagoOCOs 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 housingOCOs history in Chicago from its New Deal roots through current mayor Richard M. DaleyOCOs Plan for Transformation. In the process, he chronicles the Chicago Housing AuthorityOCOs own transformation from the cityOCOs most progressive government agency to its largest slumlord. ...
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Now considered a dysfunctional mess, ChicagoOCOs 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 housingOCOs history in Chicago from its New Deal roots through current mayor Richard M. DaleyOCOs Plan for Transformation. In the process, he chronicles the Chicago Housing AuthorityOCOs own transformation from the cityOCOs most progressive government agency to its largest slumlord. aaaaaaaaaaa Challenging explanations that attribute the projectsOCO decline primarilyato racial discrimination and real estate interests, Hunt argues that well-intentioned but misguided policy decisionsOCoranging from design choices to maintenance contractsOCoalso 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. aaaaaaaaaaa"Blueprint for Disaster," then, " "is an urgent reminder of the havoc poorly conceived policy can wreak on our most vulnerable citizens.
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