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 HumphriesÂ
- 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