Blueprint for Disaster

Looks at the history of public housing in Chicago, from it's roots in the New Deal to the present day, and the transformation of the Chicago Housing Authority from an effective progresssive government agency to an agency in fiscal crisis.

Autorentext

D. Bradford Hunt is associate dean and associate professor of social science at Roosevelt University in Chicago.

Zusammenfassung
Traces public housing's history in Chicago from its New Deal roots through mayor Richard M Daley's Plan for Transformation. In the process, the author chronicles the Chicago Housing Authority's own transformation from the city's most progressive government agency to its largest slumlord.