A growing number of PHAs were pursuing de facto demolition when they did. They were doing so because they had identified these as their most problematic properties. Congress had never provided as many resources as was necessary for the upkeep and the improvement of projects that were beginning to age out.
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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