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How Not to Plan Public Housing
Post, Langdon W. | March 27, 1937 issue

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The fact that people finally have a small amount of public housing in the United States, after fifty years of agitation against slums, is not the result of any real general awakening to the need for it. It is simply because the government decided to spend money for public works to help people out of the depression. It is important to remember this, because it helps to explain why, more than three years after the first funds were allocated, the U.S. citizens still have no real program and no firm acceptance of housing as a public responsibility. The Public Works Administration has constructed or is constructing in forty cities projects, which will accommodate not quite 25,000 families.

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PUBLIC housing; HOUSING policy; PUBLIC works -- United States; CITY planning; HOUSING development; DEPRESSIONS; UNITED States
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