2. To build these brand new units in mixed-income neighborhoods that would provide economic opportunities to stragglers from the formerly depleted neighborhoods.

3. To transfer CHA properties to professional property management companies in an effort to ensure that revitalization of these transferred properties continues its upward slope in the future rather than reverting to its former demoralized position.

4. To integrate CHA residents with the rest of greater Chicago and to provide them with expanded access to regular city services including public and private social resources.

CHA emphasizes that residents affected by this move are being cared for by temporary and voluntary housing options, and that CHA attempts to upset the life of these transitory residents as least as possible.

Certainly there are disturbances and, possibly, even errors -- it would be impossible to attempt a "public housing revitalization plan of this magnitude" and "we're learning more everyday" (34) -- but Peterson insists, "[we're] applying what we've learned" (ibid). To date, CHA has completed renovation and redevelopment of 56% of its units. They've closed 27 mixed-income deals, and residents are receiving the necessary supportive services. Peterson closes on the triumphant note: "We're working every day to ensure that our goals are fulfilled. For us and the rest of Chicago, failure is not an option" (34).

Although the article was well written, informative,...

Initially thinking the author's intent was to explain and excuse the disturbances that construction might be causing in day -- to-day life, I, later, thought it to be an assertion, for publicly-minded personnel, that the needs of involved residents were adequately being taken care over; lastly - realizing the genre of the journal and the fact that CHA was still now climbing out of financial collapse - I wondered whether the article was not meant to capture the interest of prospective buyers. Individuals might be reluctant to invest in depressed housing; CHA, therefore, details its rehabilitation and construction projects demonstrating how it is revitalizing neighborhoods into "places where families of all income levels can thrive -- places where families cane be proud to call home" (31).
Accompanied by illustrative graphics, including a timeline, and persuasive examples, the article succeeds in persuading the reader (at least, it persuaded me) that CHA has grand plans aligned for the future, that it has successfully completed some of these plans, and that "if successful" -- and there seems to be no doubt in the author's mind that it will be - CHA will succeed in "eliminat[ing] substandard living conditions and replace dilapidated high-rise buildings with new low-rise communities and economic opportunities for the poor" (34).

Source

Peterson, T. (2005) a vision for change, Economic…