Integrating the Inner City

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For many years Chicago's looming large-scale housing projects defined the city, and their demolition and redevelopment - via the Chicago Housing Authority's Plan for Transformation - has been perhaps the most startling change in the city's urban landscape in the last twenty years. The Plan, which reflects a broader policy effort to remake public housing in cities across the country, seeks to deconcentrate poverty by transforming high-poverty public housing complexes into mixed-income developments and thereby integrating once-isolated public housing residents into the social and economic fabric of the city. But is the Plan an ambitious example of urban regeneration or a not-so-veiled effort at gentrification?

subjects: Social interaction,  Community development, united states,  Housing, united states,  Mixed-income housing,  Inclusionary housing programs,  Community development,  Social integration,  Chicago Housing Authority. Plan for Transformation,  Chicago Housing Authority