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Braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago's Cabrini-Green, America's most iconic public housing project. Built in the 1940s atop an infamous Italian slum, Cabrini-Green grew to twenty-three towers and a population of 20,000--all of it packed onto just seventy acres a few blocks from Chicago's ritzy Gold Coast. Cabrini-Green became synonymous with crime, squalor, and the failure of government. For the many who lived there, it was also a much-needed resource--it was home. By 2011, every high-rise had been razed, the island of black poverty engulfed by the white affluence around it, the families dispersed. In this novelistic and eye-opening narrative, Ben Austen tells the story of America's public housing experiment and the changing fortunes of American cities. It is an account told movingly through the lives of residents who struggled to make a home for their families as powerful forces converged to accelerate the housing complex's demise. Beautifully written, rich in detail, and full of moving portraits, High-Risers is a sweeping exploration of race, class, popular culture, and politics in modern America that brilliantly considers what went wrong in our nation's effort to provide affordable housing to the poor--and what we can learn from those mistakes.
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Race relations, Low-income housing, Cabrini-Green High Impact Program, Social conditions, African Americans, Housing, Public housing, Cabrini-Green Homes (Chicago, Ill.), History, Chicago (ill.), social conditions, United states, race relations, African americans, housing, African americans, illinois, chicago, African americans, history, New York Times reviewed, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Chicago Housing AuthorityPlaces
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High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
Feb 12, 2019, Harper Paperbacks
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High-risers: Cabrini-Green and the fate of American public housing
2018, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
2018, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
Feb 13, 2018, HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio
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