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,
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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
Chapter 10: Big Cities “We Saw Our Opportunities and We Took Them”, the Feds Industrial Decentralization Strategy, War Production and Suburbia
WAR YEARS AND BIG CITIES World War II’s production of war-related material may be the most transformative, certainly dramatic driver of American twentieth-century regional change:
Chapter 10: Community Development Turns a Page: Chicago Area Project, Back of the Yards: Reveille for Radicals (Alinsky), and the Second Ghetto: A Metaphor for “Turning the Page”
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TURNS A PAGE The Depression nailed community developers as it did everybody else. A variety of mostly negative factors took the wind out
Ron W. Coan 