Book Review: Waiting for Gautreaux: A Story of Segregation, Housing, and the Black Ghetto

Heuton, Robert

doi:10.1177/1078087406293353

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“…The 1976 Gautreaux decision is a ruling arguing that the CHA and HUD discriminated against Black people by systematically placing public housing in poor and segregated areas of Chicago. 34 Under the order, Lathrop replacement housing must be relocated on the north and north-west sides of Chicago, preventing the units from going to segregated areas of the city.…”

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Lathrop Preservation Campaign: social mobilisation to save public housing in Chicago

Williams,

Miller,

Jimenez

2023

Race & Class

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This article provides an ethnographic account of the Lathrop Preservation Campaign, a grassroots effort to prevent the demolition of Lathrop Homes, one of the most diverse public housing developments in Chicago, Illinois. In 2000, the Chicago Housing Association implemented a Plan for Transformation to redevelop public housing throughout the city, based on a nationwide effort to deconcentrate poverty in subsidised housing and create mixed-income communities. The Lathrop Preservation Campaign, which consisted of residents, organisers and allies, worked to stop the demolition of Lathrop Homes, minimise the loss of public housing units and to prevent the displacement of residents. Through participant observation and interviews, the authors trace how the community came together to challenge the use of poverty deconcentration programmes and to mobilise around issues of historic preservation and racial discrimination.

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