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 […]

In 1975, the officers and crew of Soviet destroyer Storozhevoy (Sentry) mutinied, under the leadership of their erstwhile Marxist political officer Valery Sablin, who steamed her out of Riga into the Baltic Sea with visions of recreating the 1921 Kronstadt rebellion, an idealistic uprising against what the sailors saw as the Bolshevik betrayal of revolutionary […]

[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 […]

[Continued from the previous Part 2 and Part 1.]
 
So far in our multi-part history of public housing using MIT Professor Lawrence Vale’s comprehensive study, From the Puritans to the Projects, we’ve covered the pre-urban era (the Puritans and their almshouses, poorhouses, and Houses of Industry), and the Progressive period that ended the nineteenth century and opened the […]