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  • Housing and Opportunity: Impacts of Chicago’s Public Housing Demolition

    Housing and Opportunity: Impacts of Chicago’s Public Housing Demolition

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    Margaret Decker

    Chicago’s history of low-income housing policy is complex. The Chicago Housing Authority used to manage 17 large housing projects for low-income residents, but during the 1990s, due to high crime, poverty, drug use, and corruption and mismanagement in the projects, plans were made to demolish them. By 2011, all of…