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![]() Click here to learn about SF tenant's rights in Public Housing. Housing Problems? Call our Public Housing and Section 8 Renters Rights Hotline 345-6353 ![]() Films about Public Housing Voices of Cabrini
In
1995, demolition began at Cabrini Green, one of Chicago's most
"notorious" housing developments. Filmed from 1995-1999, Voices of
Cabrini is the story of how redevelopment is changing this neighborhood.
Brick-By-Brick: A Civil Right Story Brick by Brick: A Civil Rights Story is a one-hour television documentary about a contemporary American battle for civil rights. It follows three families in Yonkers, New York, in the middle of a confrontation about the politics and law of racial discrimination in housing and schools that challenges and changes their hometown. Dislocation A film by Sudhir Venkatesh about Public Housing "transformation" in Chicago. Dislocation chronicles the lives of tenants in one building as they move through the six-month relocation process. Frederick Wiseman's Public Housing Public Housing documents daily life at the Ida B. Wells public housing development in Chicago. The film illustrates some of the experiences of people living in conditions of extreme poverty. ![]() Straight Outta Hunter's Point explores the daily lives of residents of San Francisco's Public Housing. Books About Public Housing American Project By Sudhir Venkatesh From the Puritans to the Projects by Lawrence J Vale Where Are Poor People to Live? Edited by Bennett, Smith, Wright |
![]() GENERAL PUBLIC HOUSING INFORMATION What is "Public Housing"? Often people use the term "public housing" for any low-income housing that is funded by the federal government but public housing is only one of the different housing programs funded by the federal government through the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Public housing is distinguishable from other HUD programs in a few key ways:
Learn
More About Public
Housing
National Housing Law Project's
Public
Housing Page
National Low Income Housing Coalition's Advocacy Guide (p. 129) HUD's Public Housing Page The Urban Institutes's Public Housing Publications Columbia University's Center for Urban Research Policy Publications Read the report of the results of our community forums on the "Future of the Housing Authority" Public Housing Tenant's Organizing Tenant Organizing in Public Housing ENFRONT-The National Public Housing Tenants Organization The Coalition to Protect Public Housing (Chicago) ![]() Public
Housing
Association of
Residents (Charlotte,
VA)
Tenant Information about NYC Public Housing Issues Good Old Lower East Side (NYC) National Training and Infomation Center |
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