Chicago Housing: The Players, Problems and Solutions

Abstract

While relocation programs appear to solve problems of crime and violence, they often relocate many against their will, placing them in unfamiliar communities that may be no safer than the ones from which the residents came. Questions arise whether it is more important to integrate blacks into white communities or renovate the crumbling black neighborhoods and public housing buildings themselves. The answers are neither straightforward nor simple, but their solutions should have one absolute: whatever action is taken should correspond to the tenant's bests interests guided by an experienced staff's good judgment. [From A Close Look]