The Chicago housing authority's plan for transformation

Where are Poor People to Live?: Transforming Public Housing Communities: Transforming Public Housing Communities

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 93-124

  Smith, Janet L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

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References (4)

1. Chicago Housing Authority, "Plan for Transformation Draft for Public Comment, " September 30, 1999, p. 2.
2. Bruce Katz, "The Transformation of Chicago's Public Housing: Challenges and Opportunities, " speech at the Chicago Futures Forum sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation, February 26, 1999, (emphasis in original).
3. See Janet L. Smith and Thomas Lenz, For Rent: Housing Options in the Chicago Region, (Chicago: University of Illinois, Great Cities Institute, 1999). While there is no single threshold to determine if a rental market is tight, at the time HUD was using a vacancy rate of 6 percent.
4. See, for example, John Forester, Planning in the Face of Power (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989).