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Traces public housing's history in Chicago from its New Deal roots through mayor Richard M Daley's Plan for Transformation. In the process, the author chronicles the Chicago Housing Authority's own transformation from the city's most progressive government agency to its largest slumlord.

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"Blueprint for Disaster adds a new dimension to the [public housing] debate.... Hunt locates the problems less with a poisonous mixture of political and real estate interests, governmental neglect and racism than the fact that there was no realistic financial plan for public housing and that residents were not engaged in the process." -Chicago Tribune"

Blueprint for Disaster

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    A Paperback / softback by D. Bradford Hunt

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 01/10/2010
      ISBN13: 9780226360867, 978-0226360867
      ISBN10: 0226360865
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Traces public housing's history in Chicago from its New Deal roots through mayor Richard M Daley's Plan for Transformation. In the process, the author chronicles the Chicago Housing Authority's own transformation from the city's most progressive government agency to its largest slumlord.

      Trade Review
      "Blueprint for Disaster adds a new dimension to the [public housing] debate.... Hunt locates the problems less with a poisonous mixture of political and real estate interests, governmental neglect and racism than the fact that there was no realistic financial plan for public housing and that residents were not engaged in the process." -Chicago Tribune"

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