Tag: public housing
PETRA, and What It Means for the ‘Public’ in ‘Public...
As housing advocates, policy analysts, and tenant organizers have examined PETRA, they have found concerns that need to be aired.
Chicago Public Housing Museum in the Works
The Chicago Public Housing Museum will trace 70 years of public housing through the stories and artifacts of six decades of residents of the red brick Addams buildings along Chicago’s West Taylor Street.
Lessons from a Chicago Saga
In "Waiting for Gautreaux," Polikoff examines the 30-year effort to eliminate the Black ghetto and move Chicago Housing Authority tenants to integrated communities.
Tearing Down the Community
A year after she left Chicago’s notorious Robert Taylor Homes public housing development, 30-year-old Lee-Lee Henderson said she was ready to return. “I’d rather...
How Well Did Yonkers Fair Housing Measures Work?
Across the United States since the passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1968, only a handful of lawsuits have challenged systematic racial discrimination...
Ann Arbor Tenants Union
For 27 years, the Ann Arbor Tenants Union has worked to put tenants in power and keep landlords on their toes by counseling, educating, and organizing.
Public Housing: What Went Wrong?
Public housing is not only high-rises full of drug dealers that should be demolished. It has been a successful way to create affordable housing that has suffered segregation, stigmatization and concentration of the very poor.
Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing
Joseph Shuldiner
Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing
Prior to coming to HUD, Joseph Shuldiner was executive director of the Los Angeles Housing Authority (1990-93)...
ACORN Organizes Public Housing Residents
As the ACORN Tenant Union comes near to completing its first full year of organizing public housing residents, with 150 developments organized representing some...