Issue 13

AREA Chicago #13 was released April 4th, 2013

Table of Contents

• Masthead and Contributor Bios
• Where We Are Living Now Inheriting the Grid #13 by Rebecca Zorach
• Index by Jerome Grand
• Ad-listings

Introducing and Pull-out Pieces

• Introducing: 6018North by Tricia Van-eck
• Introducing: Ocupados/Occupations and Tent Cities by Jayne Hileman
• Introducing: CivicLab and the TIF Illumination Project and Pull-out Piece by Tom Tresser
• Introducing: The Emmett Till House by Phillis Humphries 
• Pull-out Piece: Red Lines and Death Vows by Damon Rich
• Introducing: The Black Cinema House by Michael W. Phillips Jr.

Selections from Photo Series

• Displaced: The (Real) Housing Crisis by Crystal Vance Guerra
• 17 Stories and Lathrop Homes by Jason Reblando
• Whittier Occupation, Public Meeting to Demand a Moratorium on Foreclosures and Evictions, and Stone Soup Co-op by Sarah Jane Rhee

1. Housing Histories

• Chicago’s Other 1968 by Keeanga- Yamahtta Taylor
• Are we who we are regardless of where we lay our heads? by NWA Authors and curate by Hollen Reischer
• Home Economics by Heather Radke
• WWII Veterans’ Housing in West Ridge, 1946-1947 by Larry Shure
• The Battle for Uptown by Alison Fisher
• From the Archives: Housing is a Queer Issue

2. Notes from the Current Crises

• Stories of Struggle by Merlene Robinson-Parsons, Maria Dolores, Gloria Harris, Virginia Morales, Vicente Gutierrez, Mary Bonelli, Marcia Iza, Silvia Baca, Yesenia Tellez, Patricia Hill, Kim Scardina, Patricia Scardina, John Newman, Victoria Rivera, and Keosha Cummings
• “The Work That Makes All Work Possible” by The Chicago Coalition of Household Workers with Heather Radke
• Housing Struggles in Immigrant Communities by Tom Hansen
• Affordable, Accessible, Integrated Housing For All by Adam Ballard
• Development and Displacement in South Chicago by Crystal Vance Guerra
• The New Housing Boom by Rozalinda Borcila and Daniel Carrillo
• No Borders, No Cages! by Jose G. Herrera Soto
• Clearing Mutality by Basia Toczydlowska

3. The CHA

• Tower in the Park by Alison Fisher
• Gautreaux v. Urban Renewal by Damon Rich
• What’s Gentrification Got to Do With It? by Phillis Humphries
• Housing and the Cultural Politics of Mixed-Income Schools by Pauline Lipman
• Saving the Lathrop Homes by Mary Pattillo
• CHAos Revisited by Chaos Agents
• Driving by the CHA by Ingrid Haftel, Kelly Humrichouser, and Bert Stabler

4. Gentrification in Pilsen

• Puppies Out of Pilsen by Nicole Marroquin
• “We’re Cultural Workers” by Nyki Salinas Duda
• Crowdfunding Affordable Housing Preservation by Mark Walden
• Housing Development and Community Destabilization in Pilsen by Euan Hague and Winifred Curran
• Students and Sit-ins at Whittler Elementary School by Winifred Curran and Euan Hague

5. Making it Work

• First Things First by Loren A. Seeger
• The Value of Living in a Co-operative Community by David Nekimken
• Co-operative Living as Path in Revolutionary Parenting by Jennie Rudderham and Jasson Perez
• “We Can Only Be Human Together” by Marie Shebeck
• St. Leonard’s House by Jesse Proudfoot
• Undocumented Renters by Nyki Salinas Duda
• A Home Beyond Nursing Homes by Jake Morris