African Americans were continuing to face discrimination in the private housing market. There was both legally enforced forms of exclusion and related popular forms of violent white resistance to black people moving into their neighborhoods. And did the public housing also become in many cases housing of last resort for those black people had been displaced? Right, that this was happening exactly at that time when the racial profile of public housing was was changing.
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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