Public Housing

A Comeback For Public Housing?

9 April 2008 - 2:00pm
Baltimore Sun

With HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson's departure, it's time to begin reinvesting in the nation's public housing stock.

How To Fix The Problem Neighborhood

7 April 2008 - 1:00pm
Toronto Sun

Like so many drug and crime infested neighborhoods in cities everywhere, ideas abound for fixing the Jane and Fitch neighborhood in Toronto. But will any of them work?

Is Chicago's 'Transformed' Cabrini-Green 'Too Good for Poor People'?

13 March 2008 - 10:00am
Good Magazine

As a part of Chicago's $1.4 billion "Plan for Transformation," the once massive Cabrini-Green project has been redeveloped into a mix of affordable, public and market housing. But 80% of the former tenants have moved away.

Evictions Precede Market-Rate Conversion of Affordable Housing

7 March 2008 - 8:00am
San Francisco Chronicle

Plans to convert one of San Francisco's public housing projects into market rate housing has resulted in dozens of evictions, and more are expected.