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The Poorhouse: Subsidized Housing in Chicago by Devereux Bowly Jr. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Chicago 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.__Certificate of Excellence__ from the Illinois State Historical Society, 2013

Who reads The Poorhouse: Subsidized Housing in Chicago?

Author

Devereux Bowly Jr.

Publisher

Southern Illinois University Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780809330522

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Architecture, Sociology