SOC 308 Lecture Notes - Urban Renewal, Working Poor, Public Works Administration
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Ghettoization of public housing! the result of the public housing program of the us was to segregate races. to keep disadvantaged in inner city and use the suburb as a refuge for problems of race, crime, poverty. Other countries had created these low interest housing while the united states was falling behind in comparison. 1: grants and loans could be made possible to public authorities for the same purpose! 3. the housing division was unable to rebuild the slums so it turned to its second alternative- the. Judge dawson said that it was unconstitutional for the pwa to acquire land by condemnation. now the pwa had to purchase private land at market prices. this increased the cost and decreased their number of projects. Roosevelt signed the us housing act in sep. 1937. it was now govt. responsibility for construction of decent, low-cost homes.
