Catherine Fennell is an anthropologist who writes about subsidized housing in urban America. Her first book, Last Project Standing: Civics and Sympathy in Post-Welfare Chicago (University of Minnesota Press, 2015), focused on demolition and redevelopment of a public housing complex that once stood on Chicago’s West Side. Her new work takes up vacant homes and their aftermaths in the late industrial urban Midwest.
Catherine Fennell
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What Was Public Housing?
Any debate about American public housing will eventually have to reckon with Chicago. More specifically, it will have to reckon with that city’s wrecked projects. Those closest to the issue have reasons to balk at such a reckoning. After all, as political scientist Edward Goetz points out, the history of American public housing can easily be […]
