Housing and Urban Development PolicyPublic Housing

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Title: Housing and Urban Development PolicyPublic Housing

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Public Housing Policy
E151U Housing Urban Development Policy
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Public Housing Policy

Public Housing Policy in America implemented
the way it has over the last century has imposed
contradictory pressures that are not well
understood and lead to false understandings of
how it operates today and how it can be improved.

3
Background

Public housing was never meant to warehouse the
poor. It was meant to give working people a
home during periods of national economic crises.

Pictures Source http//history1900s.about.com/lib
rary/photos/blygd40.htm
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World War I

Housing for defense contractor workers
United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet
Corporation
The United States Housing Corporation

5
Great Depression

Put people to work by doing construction and
remove blight
Public Works Administration (PWA)
22,000 units built
majority built in the north and large cities
most tenants were White and working (WWII
stimulated the economy)

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Housing Act of 1937

Set the Foundation for permanent public housing
Allowed the creation of local public housing
authorities that took over PWA housing

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Economic Efficiency of Public Housing

Housing subsidies
No new construction
Stimulated demand too much for pre-existing low
quality housing
Conventional Public Ownership
Construction spending put people to work
New structures removed dilapidated buildings

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Housing Act of 1949

Additional construction
Limited to very low income
Fewer units built than originally planned

9
Economic Efficiency Argument falls apart--1950s
and 1960s

No limit on price of land for public housing, but
limit on cost per unit construction
Result Politics determined location. Shoddy
projects built
Rents collected were linked to income of
residents 30
Result Not enough money to keep up the projects

10
Racial Prejudice
Picture Source http//www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/d
epression/photoessay.htm
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1950s-1960s The Civil Rights Movement
Picture Source http//www.lucidcafe.com/library/9
6jan/king.html
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Policies Trigger Change

Education Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka,
U.S. Supreme Court (1954)
separate is inherently unequal
Domino effect whites flee, poor
African-Americans concentrated in public housing
Redevelopment 1) neighborhoods razed, more poor
flee to public housing 2) the stigmatization of
public housing

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Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority (1966)

Class action suit charging racial segregation in
Chicagos public housing (rights violations under
Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the equal protection
clause of the 14th Amendment)

14
The Design Bungle Pruitt-Igoe Housing Project
Picture sources http//bacweb.the-bac.edu/michae
l.b.williams/Pruitt-Forum.html
http//www.eslarp.uiuc.edu/la/LA338-S01/groups/b/E
volution1.html
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What Went Wrong?