Given the chance, what resident of Chicago’s troubled public housing projects wouldn’t leap at the possibility of landing an apartment in a gleaming new condominium tower? Especially if rent on that apartment was heavily subsidized and if it stood in a building that featured amenities unheard of in the city’s housing projects? That, anyway, is what managers and developers of West­ haven Park Tower assumed as they prepared for the mixed­income building’s first cohort of impov­ erished tenants in 2006. So as managers ran per­ sonal tours of the building for prospective tenants from the Governor Henry Horner public housing complex that spring, they made sure to linger on its most impressive features, the ones that con­ trasted with the disrepair and neglect that beset Horner in the 1980s and 1990s. Those tours always started outside, in front of the building’s plateglass doors. “Unless you’re buzzed in, nobody is getting in without this,” the manager would usually begin, waving a gray plas­ tic key fob across a metal plate. The locks would click open and the small group—a prospective tenant, her lawyer, her case manager, and I, a grad­ uate student of anthropology—would all enter the spotless lobby. The manager would point us to a South Atlantic Quarterly

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家庭毒害：后福利芝加哥的分类义务

如果有机会，芝加哥陷入困境的公共住房项目的哪个居民不会跳到在闪闪发光的新公寓大楼中建造公寓的可能性？尤其是如果那间公寓的租金得到了大量补贴，并且它坐落在一栋具有该市住房项目中闻所未闻的设施的建筑物中？无论如何，这就是 Westhaven Park Tower 的管理人员和开发商在 2006 年为混合收入建筑的第一批贫困租户做准备时所假设的。 因此，当管理人员为来自州长 Henry Horner 公众的潜在租户进行个人参观时那个春天的住宅区，他们确保留下最令人印象深刻的特征，这些特征与 1980 年代和 1990 年代困扰霍纳的年久失修和忽视形成鲜明对比。那些旅行总是从外面开始，在大楼的平板玻璃门前。“除非你被蜂拥而入，否则没有这个就没有人进来，”经理通常会这样说，一边在金属板上挥舞着一个灰色的塑料钥匙扣。锁会咔哒一声打开，这群人——一个准租户、她的律师、她的案件经理，以及我，一个人类学研究生——都会进入一尘不染的大厅。经理会向我们指出南大西洋季刊