
New Deal Ruins w/ Edward Goetz
The Dig
Is There Resistance to Housing Demolition?
There's a tension here between making public housing residents the primary victims who these policies are intended to save and making them out to be the principal threats and perpetrators. Unsurprisingly, there there was tenant resistance to Hope 6 but you write that what is perhaps more remarkable than the demonstrations against housing demolition is the fact that they do not occur more frequently. Why did tenants so often acquiesce to or even support the destruction of their homes?
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