The LA Forward Housing Justice Book Club is back and (maybe) better than ever! Our first book will be High-Risers - Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing by Ben Austen and provides a historical framework of public housing in the US that’s readable.

High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green, America’s most iconic public housing project. Ben Austen tells the story of America’s public housing experiment and the changing fortunes of American cities. It is an account told movingly through the lives of residents who struggled to make a home for their families as powerful forces converged to accelerate the housing complex’s demise. High-Risers is a sweeping exploration of race, class, popular culture, and politics in modern America that brilliantly considers what went wrong in our nation’s effort to provide affordable housing to the poor—and what we can learn from those mistakes. (The book is available at the LAPL)

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