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The point and time was the 1960s when public housing in the United States was beleaguered by disinvestment—a reduction in maintenance, services, and programs. Daily life in Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) housing was beset with deteriorating physical facilities and inadequate services to meet the residents’ needs (see Kotlowitz, 1991; Slayton, 1988).
So I’m just saying this to tell you, there just comes a point and a time when there’s a need for something, and a group of people gather and decide that they are going to do this for the benefit of their community-they can do it. —Mrs. Hallie Amey, Wentworth Gardens resident, 1988
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Feldman, R.M., Stall, S. (1994). The Politics of Space Appropriation. In: Altman, I., Churchman, A. (eds) Women and the Environment. Human Behavior and Environment, vol 13. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1504-7_7
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