Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Our fight must go on" / Rene Maxwell. -- Introduction / Larry Bennett, Janet L. Smith, and Patricia A. Wright. -- I. National and local context for public housing transformation. Public housing transformation: evolving national policy / Janet L. Smith ; Public housing's Cinderella: policy dynamics of HOPE VI in the mid-1990s / Yan Zhang and Gretchen Weismann ; The HOPE VI program: what has happened to the residents? / Susan J. Popkin. -- II. On the ground in Chicago: reshaping public housing communities. The Chicago Housing Authority's plan for transformation / Janet L. Smith ; Community resistance to CHA transformation: the history, evolution, struggles, and accomplishments of the Coalition to Protect Public Housing / Patricia A. Wright ; The case of Cabrini-Green / Patrica A. Wright, with Richard M. Wheelock and Carol Steele ; A critical analysis of the ABLA redevelopment plan / Larry Bennett, Nancy Hudspeth, and Patricia A. Wright ; Relocated public housing residents have little hope of returning: work requirements for mixed-income public housing developments / William P. Wilen and Rajesh D. Nayak. -- III. Learning from Chicago: prospects and challenges for policy makers. Gautreaux and Chicago's public housing crisis: the conflict between achieving integration and providing decent housing for very low-income African Americans / William P. Wilen and Wendy L. Stasell ; Mixed-income communities: designing out poverty or pushing out the poor? / Janet L. Smith ; Downtown restructuring and public housing in contemporary Chicago: fashioning a better world-class city / Larry Bennett. -- Epilogue / Larry Bennett, Janet L. Smith, and Patricia A. Wright.

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