The National Public Housing Museum opened April 4 in Chicago, with installations and exhibits as well as intimate individual, family, and community stories of living in public housing. One of ...
One of the nation’s first housing projects is getting a new life as a public housing museum. Chicago’s Jane Addams Homes exemplified the rise and fall of public housing in the 20th century, from their ...
During the Great Depression, the United States government embarked on an ambitious era of public housing, creating almost 1.5 million units nationwide under the Housing Act of 1937. Located on Chicago ...
If Americans have any shared image of public housing, it is one of dilapidated and even dangerous “projects” and locations of concentrated poverty. But there was a time—a brief shining moment—in which ...
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CHICAGO – A 7-year-old boy walking to school dies under sniper fire. A 13-year-old girl taking the elevator is assaulted when a man slips in behind her. Conditions in hallways are hardly fit for rats.
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