New York and Robert Moses: Policy Innovation or Abuse? A 1940 New York City Planning Commission plan offered a strategy: to rehouse the poor, stabilize
Author: edcurmudgeon
Chapter 11: Suburban Decentralization Rears its Ugly Head (mid-1940’s): CBD decline is the reason, the “business slum” battles it out with CD public neighborhood housing focus, the locals take the lead–Redevelopment Agency and Baltimore as a Case Study
DECENTRALIZATION ACCELERATES: HOUSING AND SLUM CLEARANCE BECOMES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT During the New Deal, Herb Nelson and NAREB might as well have been in the
Chapter 11: Urban Renewal as War Production Housing: Let’s House the Workforce Near the Factories (the fate of the Southern Diaspora)
War Production Worker Housing In June 1940 Congress passed the Defense Housing Act (Public Law/PL 671). This legislation turned federal housing funds away from low-income,
Chapter 11: the New Deal and Urban Renewal (1930’s) — Creating Depression-Era Jobs, the Housing Act of 1937
Early New Deal: 1933 NIRA Roosevelt as described in the last chapter was not an urban reformer—certainly not a community developer. His tendencies overlapped CD’s
Chapter 11: Pre-New Deal Urban Renewal, aka Housing and Planning led by Community Developers, mugged in D.C. by Local Mainstream EDOs and Business Think Tanks
HOUSING AND PLANNING: THE SAGA BEGINS By World War I’s end Big City worker/immigrant housing was in worse shape than ever. The previous housing reformer
Chapter 11: Urban renewal: the scarlet letter of economic development: Opening Statement and Purposes
Urban renewal: the scarlet letter of economic development Oh, I used to walk down this street before. But they’ve kicked out the folks I
Ron W. Coan 