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 […]

[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 […]

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
 
[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).]
 
In our multi-part history of public housing [If this isn’t your cup of tea, see you next week! – […]