When Public Housing Was Paradise Building Community in Chicago

Name: When Public Housing Was Paradise Building Community in Chicago
Price: 32.98 USD
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ISBN: 9780252072130

ISBN-10: 0252072138

ISBN-13: 9780252072130

Edition: 2003

Authors: J. S. Fuerst, D. Bradford Hunt, John Hope Franklin

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Collecting seventy-nine oral histories from former public housing residents and staff, J. S. Fuerst's When Public Housing Was Paradise is a powerful testament to the fact that well-designed, well-managed low-rent housing has worked, as well as a demonstration of how it could be made to work again.J. S. Fuerst has been involved with public housing in Chicago for more than half a century. He retired from Loyola University, where he was a professor of social welfare policy. He was the editor of Public Housing in Europe and America. D. Bradford Hunt is an assistant professor of social science at Roosevelt University. John Hope Franklin is James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History at Duke…

Book details

List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 1/5/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Foreword




The vision and its implementers : the staff of the CHA



Laboratories for leadership



Gateway to the American dream



Reflections on integration, segregation, and choice



Investments in the mind : the importance of education



The building of character : religion, sports, and music



And the band played on and on ... and then off key : residents who stayed in CHA