The Commission issues its report in 1992 and within months Congress has created a demonstration program called the Urban Redevelopment Demonstration Program. The new Secretary of HUD, Henry Sisneros, who begins a tour of public housing across the country becomes convinced that moderate rehabilitation is not enough. In 1994 he creates what is called the HUD Reinvention Blueprint which also comes out in 1994 as a result of these midterm elections. It includes a radical kind of redefinition of public housing taking it away from the form that it had taken in the first 40 years of its life.
Featuring Edward Goetz on his book New Deal Ruins: Race, Economic Justice, and Public Housing Policy. Goetz tells the story of American public housing and then its destruction and dismantling, which took off in the 1980s and accelerated during the 90s under the Clinton Administration’s Hope VI program.
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