Public Housing — Publications

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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 44k]

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

 
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