Residents Try a New Life at Oakwood Shores

Chicago Public Radio follows the lives of public housing residents moving into Charter-Award-winning Oakwood Shores.

Some Public Housing Residents Try a New Life in Mixed Income
Chicago Public Radio, June 2, 2008
"They stand no more: high-rise public housing buildings that once pierced the cityscape have been demolished. So-called “mixed-income” communities are growing in their place. The largest and oldest of these communities is a place called Oakwood Shores on the South Side. Here low-income blacks have moved in next to middle class blacks. It’s all part of the Chicago Housing Authority’s billion-dollar plan to deconcentrate poverty."