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The Chicago Housing Authority Explained

riginally intended to replace overcrowded, deeply impoverished neighborhoods, Chicagoā€™s midcentury public housing developments initially offered significantly better living conditions to residents, and for a time were, as author Dawn Turner told the South Side Weekly, ā€œbastionsā€ of stability that ā€œconferred dignity on the residents.ā€ But subsequent decades of disinvestment and neglect by federal and municipal […]