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Author: D. Bradford Hunt Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226360873 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 392
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Now considered a dysfunctional mess, Chicago’s public housing projects once had long waiting lists of would-be residents hoping to leave the slums behind. So what went wrong? To answer this complicated question, D. Bradford Hunt traces public housing’s history in Chicago from its New Deal roots through current mayor Richard M. Daley’s Plan for Transformation. In the process, he chronicles the Chicago Housing Authority’s own transformation from the city’s most progressive government agency to its largest slumlord. Challenging explanations that attribute the projects’ decline primarily to racial discrimination and real estate interests, Hunt argues that well-intentioned but misguided policy decisions—ranging from design choices to maintenance contracts—also paved the road to failure. Moreover, administrators who fully understood the potential drawbacks did not try to halt such deeply flawed projects as Cabrini-Green and the Robert Taylor Homes. These massive high-rise complexes housed unprecedented numbers of children but relatively few adults, engendering disorder that pushed out the working class and, consequently, the rents needed to maintain the buildings. The resulting combination of fiscal crisis, managerial incompetence, and social unrest plunged the CHA into a quagmire from which it is still struggling to emerge. Blueprint for Disaster, then,is an urgent reminder of the havoc poorly conceived policy can wreak on our most vulnerable citizens.
Author: D. Bradford Hunt Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226360873 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 392
Book Description
Now considered a dysfunctional mess, Chicago’s public housing projects once had long waiting lists of would-be residents hoping to leave the slums behind. So what went wrong? To answer this complicated question, D. Bradford Hunt traces public housing’s history in Chicago from its New Deal roots through current mayor Richard M. Daley’s Plan for Transformation. In the process, he chronicles the Chicago Housing Authority’s own transformation from the city’s most progressive government agency to its largest slumlord. Challenging explanations that attribute the projects’ decline primarily to racial discrimination and real estate interests, Hunt argues that well-intentioned but misguided policy decisions—ranging from design choices to maintenance contracts—also paved the road to failure. Moreover, administrators who fully understood the potential drawbacks did not try to halt such deeply flawed projects as Cabrini-Green and the Robert Taylor Homes. These massive high-rise complexes housed unprecedented numbers of children but relatively few adults, engendering disorder that pushed out the working class and, consequently, the rents needed to maintain the buildings. The resulting combination of fiscal crisis, managerial incompetence, and social unrest plunged the CHA into a quagmire from which it is still struggling to emerge. Blueprint for Disaster, then,is an urgent reminder of the havoc poorly conceived policy can wreak on our most vulnerable citizens.
Author: Michael Buckley Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1526507226 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 1826
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Now in its twenty-seventh edition, this indispensable guide to capital taxes provides the reader with annotated legislation in the areas of stamp duty, CAT and local property tax. All changes brought by the Finance Act 2018 are included, together with any other relevant legislation since the previous edition. All relevant information issued by the Revenue Commissioners is also included. Each section of the book takes the area of tax it deals with and runs through each Act and Statutory Instrument which is relevant to it, with notes which detail definitions, amendments, cross-references, e-Briefings, Tax Briefings, former enactments and relevant case law.
Author: D. Bradford Hunt
Author: D. Bradford Hunt
Author: Great Britain
Author: Great Britain
Author: Great Britain. Laws, statutes, etc
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor
Author: Great Britain
Author: Great Britain
Author: Great Britain
Author: Hugh Pattison Macmillan Baron Macmillan
Author: Michael Buckley