Sociology 2152A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: South Street Seaport, Federal Housing Administration, Urban Renewal
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Inadequate housing = presence of structural defects, safety hazards that inhibit people from living there. The worse housing is found to be occupied by the poor and minorities who are subject to discrimination (people who have the fewest social choices) A steady decline in available, low rent housing units and increase in rent. Unintended consequence = increase of homelessness: housing problems: a brief history. Current housing problems have their roots in the past. Many of the older 19th century housing had conditions way worse than what is unacceptable today. Only during the u. s economy collapse in the 1930s (the great depression), did the government (roosevelt) enact a new housing program (new deal) All housing constructions slowed for the duration of wwii. A major shortage of housing for soldiers (baby boom) along with the continued need to improve the overall quality of housing, led the government to devise several new strategies.