COMING IN 2013 FROM VOICE OF WITNESS
HIGH RISE STORIES: VOICES FROM CHICAGO PUBLIC HOUSING
Edited by Audrey Petty
ABOUT THE BOOK:
High-Rise Stories is an oral history book project that will gather stories from residents of Chicago’s Henry Horner Homes, Robert Taylor Homes, Stateway Gardens and Cabrini-Green– all publicly-funded edifices that no longer exist.
In 2000, with the deconcentration of poverty in city neighborhoods as a goal, the Chicago Housing Authority initiated Plan for Transformation, an initiative that resulted in the demolition of thousands of housing units as well as widespread renovations and the construction of mixed-income developments. High Rise Stories aims to illuminate one of America’s most critical yet underreported social issues: fair and decent housing for the members of our country’s most vulnerable populations.
High Rise Stories will explore how generations of Chicago Housing Agency residents made homes for themselves within the walls of public housing, and how they have experienced the agency’s Plan for Transformation. Tenants’ accounts of community, displacement, removal, and relocation are not only crucial to Chicago’s social history, but are also key to any meaningful national conversation about poverty, housing reform, urban renewal and gentrification.
WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT TO MAKE THIS BOOK A REALITY. CLICK HERE TO MAKE A DONATION NOW.
