Excerpt from Housing, Chicago Style: A Consultation Sponsored by the Illinois Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights; October, 1982 In Chicago and in other metropolitan areas around the country the twin issues of adequacy and equality in housing concern many public Officials, people in private industry, and, most of all, low income minority families. In Chicago the housing stock is shrinking with some neighborhoods having lost as much as 20 percent of all housing units in the past ten years. And according to 1980 census figures, two-thirds of the city's community areas are either more than 95 percent black or are virtually all white. Similarly segregated is Chicago's fastest growing minority group, the Hispanics. The current administration in Washington is considering some new directions in housing policy, in part because of these issues. Many housing and civil rights experts have expressed con cern, however, that these proposals will exacerbate rather than alleviate the problems of adequacy and equality in the nation's housing markets. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.