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PUBLIC HOUSING PROGRAM IN BRIEF
Public Housing Program Information Brief
PUBLIC HOUSING TRANSFORMATION
Statement of Gautreaux Plaintiffs on CHA Draft Transformation Plan (November 1999)
Public Housing Destruction: Is It Worth
It?
BPI Newsletter (February 2003)
BPI Perspective - Why Does BPI Support CHA's Transformation Plans?
BPI Newsletter (August 2000)
Appeals Court Ruling Has New Implications for Gautreaux
BPI Newsletter (October 1999)
Polikoff, A. Housing Policy and Urban Poverty
by Alexander Polikoff, published in New Beginnings Project: A First Report (Washington: the
Center for Housing Policy, 1994) [Download 2.8mb]
"Chicago's Not About to Give Up On a Bad Idea": The Future of Public Housing High-rises
by Alexander Polikoff, published in Affordable Housing and Public Policy: Strategies for Metropolitan Chicago, ed. Lawrence B.
Joseph (Chicago: The University Of Chicago Center for Urban Research and Policy Studies, 1993) [Download 1.2mb]
MOBILITY
On Housing Mobility: Myths, Reality and More
BPI Newsletter (Summer 2002)
Reflections: Escape the Ghetto?
BPI Newsletter (April 1990)
The Gautreaux Program: An Experiment in Racial and Economic Integration.
by James E. Rosenbaum and Susan J. Popkin, BPI Newsletter (April 1990)
Keeping the Promise: Preserving and
Enhancing Housing
Mobility in the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program: Final Conference Report of the Third National Conference on Housing Mobility.
edited by Phillip Tegeler, Mary Cunningham, and Margery Austin Turner. Available electronically from the Poverty and Race
Research Action Council.
Report from the Second National Conference on Housing Mobility
by Margery Austin Turner and Kale Williams. Available electronically from The Urban
Institute.
Housing Mobility: Promise or Illusion? Report from the First
National Conference on Housing Mobility
by Alexander Polikoff. Available electronically from The Urban Institute.
The Geography of Opportunity: Race and Housing Choice in Metropolitan America
edited by Xavier de Souza Briggs (Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2005).
GAUTREAUX
What is Gautreaux?
Waiting for Gautreaux: A Story of Segregation, Housing, and the Black Ghetto
by Alexander Polikoff, forward by Clarence Page. (Northwestern University Press, January 2006)
Waiting for Gautreaux: Reflections and Conundrums About Chicago's Long-Running Public Housing Desegregation
Case
by Alexander Polikoff (developed for the Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University Colloquium, November 2002) [Download
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Gautreaux and Institutional Litigation
by Alexander Polikoff (Chicago-Kent Law Review, Vol. 64, No. 2, 1988)
Crossing the Class and Color Lines: From Public Housing to White Suburbia,
by Leonard S. Rubinowitz and James E. Rosenbaum (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2000)
Summer 2006, Vol. 1. Issue 1 [Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy (JLSP)] In March 2006, a conference, "Gautreaux at 40: Race, Class, Housing Mobility, and Neighborhood Revitalization," was held at
Northwestern University School of Law. Papers submitted at the conference constituted the first issue of an online inter-disciplinary journal.
The Houses that Gautreaux Built
by Debra Shore, University of Chicago Magazine (February 1995)
IMPORTANT GAUTREAUX COURT RULINGS
1969 Judgment order - Gautreaux v. CHA,
304 F.Supp. 736 (N.D. Ill. July 1, 1969)
1976 Supreme Court decision - Hills v. Gautreaux,
425 U.S. 284 (April 20, 1976)
1981 HUD consent decree - Gautreaux v. Landrieu,
523 F.Supp. 665 (N.D. Ill. June 16, 1981)
1987 Receivership order - Gautreaux v. Pierce,
N.D. Illinois (No. 66C1259, August 14, 1987) Aff'd at 690F2d 616 (7th Cir. 1982) (unpublished)
1997 HOPE VI ruling - Gautreaux v. Pierce,
N.D. Illinois (No. 66C1259, February 25, 1998
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