New Deal Ruins, Race, Economic Justice, and Public Housing

The New Deal era defeat of proposals for a more expansive social housing system. Instead, the United States got this two tier housing system that provided massive but politically less visible subsidies to white middle and working class people. Public housing was meant to be a way station for people who were temporarily poor because of the effects of the Great Depression. The fact that public housing was oriented towards lowest income members of society wasn't actually intended at the beginning.