The Poorhouse: Subsidized Housing in Chicago

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Chicago seems an excellent environment for public housing as a result of the city’s reasonably 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 at the whole has been a negative one, raising serious questions about the nature of subsidized housing and whether we will have to have it and, if this is the case, 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 contemporary “transformation,” which involved the  demolition of the CHA circle of relatives high-rise buildings and in some cases their replacement with low-risemixed source of revenue housing at the same sites. Fifty new photos supplement this edition.

Certificate of Excellence from the Illinois State Historical Society, 2013

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