Chicago Public Housing: A Bibliography

Source:  Chicago Tribune

A Special Report:  The Chicago Wall  (Chicago Tribune)

Public housing a dividing line.  (11/30/1986)
 
CHA may put 'For Sale' sign on housing.  (12/1/1986)

How projects rose to failure.  (12/2/1986)

• 1950.  First high-rise public housing, Dearborn Homes, is completed.
• 1953.  More than 1000 whites riot when first black family moves into Trumbull Parks Homes.  Disturbances continue for 22 months.
• 1954.  Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) Executive Secretary fired because of liberal views regarding public housing and integration.
• 1962.  Completion of 4,230-unit Robert Taylor Homes.
• 1964. Monsignor John Egan urges CHA to stop building high-rises.
• 1966.  Six CHA residents file suit in federal court, charging CHA with discrimination for building housing only in black neighborhoods.
• 1968.  Congress passes law ending construction of high-rise public housing.

Dream of progress died quickly at Taylor Homes.  (12/3/1986)

U.S. letting lifeline to public housing slip.  (12/4/1986)

Scattered-site housing:  Brouhaha without benefit.  (12/4/1986)

CHA finances falling apart as quickly as its buildings.  (12/5/1986)

CHA can be blessing in disguise.  Private housing conditions often worse for poor blacks. (12/7/1986)

Housing groups' aid can't dent the need.  (12/8/1986)

(Follow-up)  Fear lives in CHA's Taylor Homes.  (7/18/1989)

Articles in other publications

Instant Slum.  Political Foresight and Chicago Public Housing.  (Inland Architect, November/December 1986)

Four Generations in the Projects.  (The New York Times Magazine, 1/13/1991)

Razing the Slums to Rescue the Residents.  (The New York Times, 9/6/1998)

• Hard-to-place tenants.  Difficult move to private sector.
• Decline and fall.  Public housing becomes hell hole.
• Troubled families.  Stubborn problems hinder relocation.
• Problems and promise.  Complex family poses dilemma.

Hanging On.  A Housing Project Fails But the Poor Resist Orders to Move Out.  Residents Fear the Suburbs, As Government Destroys High Rises Across U.S.  'It's Too Quiet for Me'.  (The Wall Street Journal, 12/19/2000)

• Irredeemable failure
• The pull of a former home
• The end of guarantees
• Reason to celebrate
• Culture clash
• Pressure from the children

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