No Simple Solutions: Transforming Public Housing in Chicago

by Susan J. Popkin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810895366
• ISBN13: 9780810895362
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"