The politics of space appropriation

Roberta M. Feldman

Susan Stall

pp. 167-199

in: Irwin Altman, Arza Churchman (eds), Women and the environment, Berlin, Springer, 1994

Abstract

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).