Shows how major shifts in federal policy are spurring local public housing authorities to demolish their high-rise, low-income developments, and replace them with affordable low-rise, mixed income communities. This book focuses on Chicago, and that city's affordable housing crisis.

Introduction, Larry Bennett, Janet L. Smith, Patricia A. Wright; Part I National and Local Context for Public Housing Transformation; Chapter 1 Public Housing Transformation, Janet L. Smith; Chapter 2 Public Housing's Cinderella, Yan Zhang, Gretchen Weismann; Chapter 3 The HOPE VI Program, Susan J. Popkin; Part II On the Ground in Chicago; Chapter 4 The Chicago Housing Authority's Plan for Transformation, Janet L. Smith; Chapter 5 Community Resistance to CHA Transformation, Patricia A. Wright; Chapter 6 The Case of Cabrini-Green, Patricia A. Wright, Richard M. Wheelock, Carol Steele; Chapter 7 A Critical Analysis of the ABLA Redevelopment Plan, Larry Bennett, Nancy Hudspeth, Patricia A. Wright; Chapter 8 Relocated Public Housing Residents Have Little Hope of Returning, William P. Wilen, Rajesh D. Nayak; Part III Learning from Chicago; Chapter 9 Gautreaux and Chicago's Public Housing Crisis, William P. Wilen, Wendy L. Stasell; Chapter 10 Mixed-Income Communities, Janet L. Smith; Chapter 11 Downtown Restructuring and Public Housing in Contemporary Chicago, Larry Bennett; epi Epilogue, Lorry Bennett, Janet L. Smith, Patricia A. Wright;