New Deal Ruins w/ Edward Goetz
The Dig
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Urban Renewal and Public Housing
Urban renewal resulted in the demolition of hundreds of thousands of units of low-cost housing that were deemed obsolete and not worthy of keeping around. It resulted in massive displacement of people of color in in central cities across the United States. James Baldwin memorably called it the Negro removal program, so you saw it being deployed in neighborhoods primarily inhabited by very low-income people but people of color as well.
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