Affordable Housing Institute : US

[Continued from the preceding Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5.]

 
“Can this man save public housing?” asked the Boston Globe, its cover image hinting at its hoped-for answer, and for four eventful years, Harry tried.
 
And failed.
 

Sorry, Harry; admirable try
 
Indeed, for public housing, the pair of decades of the Eighties and Nineties […]

[Continued from the preceding Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4.] 
[For more on my views of public housing, see Public housing: the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (June, 2006), Public housing’s Gordian’s knot (December, 2006), and The essential housing authority (September, 2007).  Dozens of marvelous photographs are in the LaGuardia-Wagner archives.]
 
As we’ve seen […]

Yesterday’s post, taking as its source text a lengthy and thoughtful essay by Alan Ehrenhalt in The New Republic, followed the enrichment of cities as the world urbanizes in this century of cities.
With wealth come other benefits.  Wealthy cities are cleaner.  They are also safer:
 
Nor, in general, does the scourge of urban life in the […]

As the world urbanizes, in the century of cities, cities are becoming richer – and as they do, other beneficial things are happening, as explained in a lengthy and thoughtful essay by Alan Ehrenhalt in The New Republic: 
Thirty years ago, the mayor of Chicago was unseated by a snowstorm. A blizzard in January of 1979 […]

[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 […]