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2985 Redefining AmericaExtending Beyond the Text Cabrini-Green, visible in the background of this 1976 photo, was a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) project home to 15,000 people. Widespread poverty, property neglect by the CHA, and the rise of gang violence made the complex a notorious symbol of dysfunctional public housing. In 1999, the CHA began demolishing Cabrini-Green to redevelop the property, which was prime real estate, with townhouses and retail stores. The 2013 photo shows a Target, one of the stores built on the site of the demolished buildings. 1. What consequences of gentrification %u2014 both benefits and liabilities %u2014 does the juxtaposition of these two photographs highlight? 2. How do these photographs connect to Desmond%u2019s point that increasing prosperity for one group of people often comes at the expense of deepening poverty for another? QUESTIONS Understanding and Interpreting 1. The importance of labor unions in securing and defending workers%u2019 rights is a strong component of Matthew Desmond%u2019s argument. Identify some of the ways that Desmond tells us that unions have benefited a) workers at a specific company, b) a sector or industry, c) employees not represented by unions, and d) the country as a whole. ST-17500872-E1, Chicago Sun-Times Collection, Chicago History Museum Scott Olson/Getty ImagesCopyright %u00a9 Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishers. Distributed by Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishers. For review purposes only. Not for redistribution.