PUBLIC HOUSING is a film about daily life at the Ida B. Wells public housingevelopment in Chicago. The film shows the work of the tenants council, street life,the role of police, job training programs, drug education, teenage mothers, dysfunctionalfamilies, elderly residents, nursery school and after school teenage programs and theactivities of the city, state and federal governments in maintaining and changing publichousing. The scenes illustrate some of the experiences of people living in conditionsof extreme poverty.