By Roberta M. Feldman
ISBN-10: 0521593204
ISBN-13: 9780521593205
This accomplished case learn chronicles the 4 decade heritage of Chicago's Wentworth Gardens public housing citizens' grassroots activism. It explores why and the way the African-American girls citizens creatively and successfully engaged in organizing efforts to withstand expanding executive disinvestment in public housing and the specter of demolition. throughout the inspirational voices of the activists, Roberta Feldman and Susan Stall problem portrayals of public housing citizens as passive and alienated sufferers of melancholy.
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Ultimately, with CHA plans to raze the vast majority of Chicago’s public housing developments, chapter 10 describes the activists’ 9-year effort to take advantage of a federal resident management development program to save their development from the wrecking ball. To conclude The Dignity of Resistance, in chapter 11 we revisit our findings and theoretical framework to critique current government public housing policies. In the epilogue, we briefly describe Wentworth Gardens’ situation at the time we completed the book.
13 14 15 United Charities of Chicago, headed the staff of the Metropolitan Housing Council, and was executive secretary of the Illinois State Housing Board (Meyerson & Banfield, 1955). Robert Taylor was secretary–treasurer of the Illinois Federal Savings and Loan Association, which encouraged black home ownership, and worked as manager of the Michigan Boulevard Garden Apartments, an early philanthropic housing development for low-income families (Bowley, 1978). All housing authorities did not set such goals.
By 1977, less than half of all black children lived with both parents (Rodgers-Rose, 1980). In CHA developments, by 1972, only 6% of children lived with both parents. Two of the 15 older-generation compared with 6 of the 8 young-generation activists secured paid work through their volunteer efforts. Struggles for Homeplace 19 access to take advantage of white-collar jobs in the urban periphery. As a result: Lodged in the unskilled, service, and operative sectors, they experienced far greater job attrition than other demographic groups in the 1960s.
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