Our Impoverished Debate about Housing Segregation
A quest to remedy poverty has animated a certain cross section of American society since Jacob Riis took his camera and flash bulb into the dank tenements of Manhattan and […]
A quest to remedy poverty has animated a certain cross section of American society since Jacob Riis took his camera and flash bulb into the dank tenements of Manhattan and […]
Today, the Chicago Reader published my story called Saving Lathrop, a many-months-long reporting, writing and editorial effort. I couldn’t think of a publication more perfect for this piece and am extremely glad […]
CHICAGO – Last week, the National Public Housing Museum announced that it has received a $750,000 capital gift from the Alphawood Foundation, which will allow the organization to move closer […]
Over the past couple of weeks, two talks by noted scholars of public housing history highlighted issues still percolating in Chicago, 77 years after the founding of its Housing Authority […]
On the evening of Friday, January 17 about 50 people squeezed into the second floor of the Bronzeville Visitor Information Center for a panel discussion with Audrey Petty, editor of […]
This is a short film produced by the U.S. Housing Authority in the 1930s to promote the construction of publicly-funded housing projects to clear slums across America. The film highlights […]
When the nation-wide program of building public housing projects began in the New Deal era, it was seen as a solution to the slum problem. Crowded, unsanitary districts could be […]