History of US public housing: Part 4, the white-flight era
[Continued from the preceding Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.]
In covering the history of public housing using MIT Professor Lawrence Vale’s comprehensive study, From the Puritans to the Projects, we’ve seen that public housing arose from a Christian-charitable impulse, was adopted by the late nineteenth-century’s enlightened progressives, and first found expression as a government activity […]