Waiting for Gautreaux: A Story of Segregation, Housing, and the Black Ghetto
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| Rating | : | 4.59 (514 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0810124203 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 444 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A Great Read!" according to T. H. Sheldon. This book is excellent portrayal of the events around the saga that was the Gautreaux case. Not only did this case change the law, but ultimately thousands of lives in the city of Chicago. Alex Polikoff's narrative is easy to read and he reveals an insider's perspective of the machinations in the halls of power from Mayor Daley's City Hall to the Supreme Court of the United State. Douglas said Quiet Hero. Not only a"great read" but a thrilling story of one good man's (and superb lawyers)Quiet Hero Douglas Not only a"great read" but a thrilling story of one good man's (and superb lawyers)40 year fight against Racial segregation in housing.. 0 year fight against Racial segregation in housing.. For those interested in housing and urban policy This book is a memoir, it is not really an objective review of affordable housing issues. Polikoff comes at this from a certain political perspective, but regardless of how one feels about public housing and the people who live in public housing, Gautreaux is primarily a story about a city agency that broke the law and Polikoff's struggle to enforce a court order to remedy the ac
He is the author of many articles on urban affairs and of Housing the Poor: The Case for Heroism. Polikoff is the recipient of a 2006 The American Lawyer Lifetime Achievement Award. He lives in the Chicago area with his wife, a writer of fiction for young people, and continues to work at BPI. . Alexander Poli
Winner, 2006 The American Lawyer Lifetime Achievement AwardOn his thirty-ninth birthday in 1966, Alexander Polikoff, a volunteer ACLU attorney and partner in a Chicago law firm, met some friends to discuss a pro bono case. CHA and HUD, a case that from its rocky beginnings would roll on year after year, decade after decade, carrying Polikoff and his colleagues to the nation's Supreme Court (to face then-solicitor general Robert Bork); establishing precedents for suits against the discriminatory policies of local housing authorities, often abetted by HUD; and setting the stage for a nationwide experiment aimed at ending the concentration--and racialization--of poverty through public housing. If discrimination was prohibited in public schools, wasn't it also prohibited in public housing?And so began Gautreaux v. Over lunch, the four talked about the Chicago Housing Authority construction program. Both the memoir of a dedicated lawyer, and the narrative of a tenacious pursuit of equality, this story--itself a critical, still-unfolding chapter in recent American history--urges us to take an essential step in ending the racial inequality that Alexis de Toqueville prophetically named America's "most formidable evil.". All the new public housing, it seemed, was going into black neighborhoods. Sometimes Kafkaesque, sometimes simply inspiring, and never less than absorbing, the story of Gautreaux, told by its principal lawyer, mo
This text traces almost 40 years of the latter drama through Gautreaux v. Polikoff occasionally gets bogged down in legal analysis—even the most dedicated lay reader will probably have a difficult time with the nuances of his climactic Supreme Court victory. CHA and HUD, the landmark Chicago public housing suit brought on behalf of underprivileged black families seeking housing outside of the predominantly black ghetto. Far more often, though, Polikoff provides just enough in