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 […]
Category Archives: History
Saving Lathrop – an addendum
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 […]
Public Housing Museum celebrates major gift
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 […]
Scholarly scrutiny
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 […]
Stories from the high rises
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 […]
Vault vid
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 […]
Chicago’s slumlords
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 […]
