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Public Housing Housing Units
590 wordsThe Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) was organized in 1937 to provide temporary housing for those people whose incomes were insufficient to obtain decent, safe and sanitary dwellings in the private market (Basics 1). Over time, the notion of "temporary" housing became lost, and generations upon generations of low-income families came to depend upon this government safety net as a permanent way of life. From there, life in public housing degenerated into warehouses for the poor, plagued by crime, ...
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Segregation And Housing In Chicago
1,184 wordsChicago was the best place to live and visit for anyone. Many people traveled from far places to visit and live in Chicago. Long after the World War II many things started reshaping America. One of the most significant was the racial change all over America but specifically in Chicago. Many southern blacks started to move into Chicago. Chicago started to become mostly dominated by blacks and other minorities while whites started to move into the suburbs of Chicago. Beginning in the 1930 s, with ...
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Segregation And Housing In Chicago
1,131 words... s and whites became a major issue during the twentieth-century. Chicago soon became one of the most segregated cities in America. Though as more blacks started to move into Chicago, there were very few integrated neighborhoods. The ghetto that existed expanded and turned into a second ghetto. It was during World War I that almost all of the migration of blacks took place in the city. This huge migration continued until the 1920 s when the Depression hit. When the Depression hit people slowly...
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Standard Of Living Upper And Lower
1,597 wordsAlthough the trend followed by most nations nowadays tend to favor mixed economies, the question about planning versus free market still resurfaces every now and then. Throughout history, people have established different types of economic systems that best represent the cultural and social values of the society as a whole. By definition, an effective economic system is believed to be the kind of system that will meet the entire society's needs and wants. It is also the system that will solve ma...
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African American Street Gangs In Los Angeles
1,602 wordsby Alejandro A. Alonso, M. S. In Los Angeles and other urban areas in the United States, the formation of street gangs increased at a steady pace through 1996. The Bloods and the Crips, the most well-known gangs of Los Angeles, are predominately African American[ 1 ] and they have steadily increased in number since their beginnings in 1969. In addition, there are over 600 active Hispanic gangs in Los Angeles County with a growing Asian gang population numbering approximately 20, 000 members. Sur...
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Supply And Demand Affordable Housing
2,083 wordsRent, land and property The rich live where land is cheap, the poor where land is dear. This saying correctly illustrates the situation with people who cannot afford housing costs and rich landlords that want to get the prices even higher. In a just society, the ruling authority must decide what is right when allocating wealth to its individual citizens. The same ruling authority does this by intervening with the inner workings of a marketplace to uphold its fundamental values and ideals. The ai...
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Affordable Housing Metropolitan Areas
1,301 wordsUrban Problems and Solutions Urbanization is one of the global trends that is followed by almost all of the states and nations through out the globe. This trend brings up many environmental and other issues that concern with life of societies living in urban areas. There are many positive and negative affects that follow the trend of urbanization and in this report we are going to talk about problems and possible ways of solutions faced by American cities. In particular we are going to talk abou...
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Racial Tensions Political Machine
1,186 wordsThe Rise an Fall of the Machine Chicago politics had become synonymous with organized crime. Following the years of prohibition, this reputation had become well earned in that control of many municipal functions was influenced in some way by the underground operations. In a city that initially developed by entrepreneurial ambition, it was no surprise that now money was the core influence in policy decisions. By itself, the criminal element had enough of a deterring effect on the city and its ima...
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State To State Federal Government
677 wordsWelfare isHeloo Welfare Welfare is a government program that provides money, medical care, food, housing, and other things that people need in order to survive. People who can receive help from these welfare programs are children, elders, disabled, and others who cannot support their families on their current income. Another name for welfare is public assistance. There are many organizations that supply this public assistance. Such as Salvation Army and other groups. Public assistance benefits h...
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Low Income Housing American Red Cross
3,427 wordsImagine a typical Homelessness Title Imagine a typical day in your life: You wake up, throw back the covers and get out of bed. You don? t put on a robe because the heat is on and it? s warm in your room. After freshening up in the bathroom, you go to your closet to choose an outfit to wear. You grab a quick breakfast. Then your best friend gives you a lift to school. At the end of the day, your mother picks you up to go shopping. Later, after dinner, you do your homework, talk on the phone and ...
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Bear Arms Concealed Carry
2,102 wordsCertainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used and that definite rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizen to bear arms is just one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible. -Hubert Humphrey, 19...
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Puerto Ricans Puerto Rico
3,236 wordsThe Status Debate: An Example Of Nationalist The Status Debate: An Example Of Nationalist Politics For Puerto Ricans Puerto Rico and its people have endured a long history filled with colonialism and ambiguous rule. It is a nation whose citizens have endured years of imperial rule, enslavement and forced dependence on other countries for its existence. It is a nation which has changed drastically from the days when Tainoes were the exclusive inhabitants of the island. Unfortunately, Puerto Rico ...
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Low Income Families Families With Dependent Children
2,030 wordsWelfare is a Welfare WELFARE Welfare is a public assistance program developed to help people who are unable to support themselves fully. It provides a minimum amount of economic security to people whose incomes do not meet a sufficient standard of living. People who receive welfare include elderly people, people with mental or physical disabilities, and those needing help to support dependent children. People in the United States most commonly use the term welfare to refer to government-funded p...
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