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The Real Housing Issue
Abrams, Charles | October 21, 1939 issue

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When Alfred Rheinstein resigned as chairman of the New York City Housing Authority with a blast that shook the foundations of every project from Williamsburg Houses in Brooklyn to Portrero Hill in San Francisco, he unwittingly loosened the pins under the housing movement. The real issues have become so confused that it is no longer easy to separate sense from nonsense. Even freedom of speech and federal Hitlerism has been dragged into the picture. Rheinstein had done a good job in cutting building costs. Everything else he stood for was taken to be right. New Deal papers joined with anti-New Deal papers in attacking Administrator Straits for provoking Rheinstein's resignation.

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HOUSING; RHEINSTEIN, Alfred; PUBLIC housing; HOUSING policy; FREEDOM of speech; COST effectiveness; BUILDING -- Estimates; RESIGNATION
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