(Source: Case Western Reserve University) News Release: Friday November 13, 2015 A $3.2 billion (and counting) transformation of Chicago's notorious high-rise public housing has dramatically changed the urban landscape there, attracting affluent residents to segregated areas and catalyzing revitalization in long-marginalized neighborhoods. But far fewer low-income Chicagoans at the heart of the city's initiative-replacing deteriorating public housing with high-quality mixed-income communities-have been helped than intended when the ambitious plan was launched 15 years ago. In fact, mixed-income development-an anti-poverty strategy to build diverse communities of market-rate renters, owners...
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