PDF⋙ The Poorhouse: Subsidized Housing in Chicago by Devereux Bowly Jr.
The Poorhouse: Subsidized Housing in Chicago by Devereux Bowly Jr. The Poorhouse: Subsidized Housing in Chicago by Devereux Bowly Jr. PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad 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 inv