http://parksidehousing.wordpress.com an experiment in public housing Sun, 10 Jun 2012 04:25:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://1.gravatar.com/blavatar/dd66fd6a4e5161540d2a3faf6631427e?s=96&d=http%3A%2F%2Fs2.wp.com%2Fi%2Fbuttonw-com.png http://parksidehousing.wordpress.com http://parksidehousing.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/28/ http://parksidehousing.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/28/#comments Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:34:51 +0000 spoerlbob http://parksidehousing.wordpress.com/?p=28 Continue reading →]]> Parkside of Old Town is a multi-unit, 18 acre mixed-income housing development on Division Street. The plan is to provide more than 700 homes on Chicago’s near North Side, on the ground of the infamous Cabrini-Green housing project. The development, being built in several phases, is funded with a combination of private and public money — using tax increment financing, federal housing money and loans from J.P. Morgan Chase. Beyond the money and the idea, people live in mixed-income housing. This is an introduction into that socially engineered life.

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