No Simple Solutions

Transforming Public Housing in Chicago

By (author) Susan J. Popkin Foreword by Kathryn Edin

Publication date:

07 October 2016

Length of book:

160 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781442268821

In this book, Sue Popkin tells the story of how an ambitious—and risky—social experiment affected the lives of the people it was ultimately intended to benefit: the residents who had suffered through the worst days of crime, decay, and rampant mismanagement of the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA), and now had to face losing the only home many of them had known. The stories Popkin tells in this book offer important lessons not only for Chicago, but for the many other American cities still grappling with the legacy of racial segregation and failed federal housing policies, making this book a vital resource for city planners and managers, urban development professionals, and anti-poverty activists.

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: Transforming Public Housing, Changing Residents’ Lives
Chapter Two: Transforming the CHA
Chapter Three: Better Housing, Safer Neighborhoods?
Chapter Four: The Hard to House
Chapter Five: Reaching the Next Generation
Chapter Six: No Simple Solutions
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

All things considered, this is an important book that comprehensively and critically documents Chicago’s Plan for Transformation. It is a valuable book for anyone—scholars, practitioners, policymakers, community organizations, and students—interested in these important housing policies.