Federal and State Public Housing Projects in Massachusetts as of May 1, 1949
Title | Federal and State Public Housing Projects in Massachusetts as of May 1, 1949 PDF eBook |
Author | Massachusetts. State Housing Board |
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Pages | |
Release | 1949 |
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General Housing Legislation, Hearings Before a Subcommittee of ..., 81-1 on S. 138, S. 685, S.686 ..., February 3 .. 212, 1949
Title | General Housing Legislation, Hearings Before a Subcommittee of ..., 81-1 on S. 138, S. 685, S.686 ..., February 3 .. 212, 1949 PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1038 |
Release | 1949 |
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General Housing Legislation
Title | General Housing Legislation PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1034 |
Release | 1949 |
Genre | Housing |
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Congressional Record
Title | Congressional Record PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1348 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | Law |
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Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Title | Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Superintendent of Documents |
Publisher | |
Pages | 652 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Government publications |
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Projects and Publications of Interest to Planning and Development Agencies
Title | Projects and Publications of Interest to Planning and Development Agencies PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 1948-02 |
Genre | Industrialization |
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From the Puritans to the Projects
Title | From the Puritans to the Projects PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence J. Vale |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 477 |
Release | 2009-07-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0674044576 |
From the almshouses of seventeenth-century Puritans to the massive housing projects of the mid-twentieth century, the struggle over housing assistance in the United States has exposed a deep-seated ambivalence about the place of the urban poor. Lawrence J. Vale's groundbreaking book is both a comprehensive institutional history of public housing in Boston and a broader examination of the nature and extent of public obligation to house socially and economically marginal Americans during the past 350 years. First, Vale highlights startling continuities both in the way housing assistance has been delivered to the American poor and in the policies used to reward the nonpoor. He traces the stormy history of the Boston Housing Authority, a saga of entrenched patronage and virulent racism tempered, and partially overcome, by the efforts of unyielding reformers. He explores the birth of public housing as a program intended to reward the upwardly mobile working poor, details its painful transformation into a system designed to cope with society's least advantaged, and questions current policy efforts aimed at returning to a system of rewards for responsible members of the working class. The troubled story of Boston public housing exposes the mixed motives and ideological complexity that have long characterized housing in America, from the Puritans to the projects.