Robert B. Fairbanks

The War on Slums in the Southwest: Public Housing and Slum Clearance in Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, 1935-1965

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Produktbeschreibung

"In The War on Slums in the Southwest, Robert Fairbanks provides compelling and probing case studies of economic problems and public housing plights in Albuquerque, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix and San Antonio. He provides brief histories of each city--all of which expanded dynamically between 1935 and 1965--and how they responded to slums under the Housing Acts of 1937, 1949, and 1954. Despite being a region where conservative politics has ruled, these Southwestern cities often handled population growth, urban planning, and economic development in ways that closely followed the national account of efforts to eliminate slums and provide public housing for the needy. The War on Slums in the Southwest therefore corrects some misconceptions about the role of slum clearance and public housing in this region as Fairbanks integrates urban policy into the larger understanding of federal and state-based housing policies. "--

Produktdetails

• Urban Life, Landscape and Poli
• Verlag: Temple University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781439911150
• ISBN-10: 1439911150
• Artikelnr.: 39890308

Autorenporträt

Robert B. Fairbanks is Professor of History at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is the author of  Making Better Citizens: Housing Reform and the Community Development Strategy in Cincinnati, 1890-1960, and For the City as a Whole: Politics, Planning and the Public Interest in Dallas, 1900-1965.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
 
Introduction
1 Cities in the Southwest or Southwestern Cities?
2 The Public Housing Movement in the Southwest: Cities Battle the Slums
before 1937
3 Southwestern Cities, Slum Clearance, and the First Permanent Public
Housing Program
4 From World War II to the Housing Act of 1949: A Moratorium on Slum
Clearance and Public Housing for Low-Income Citizens
5 The Solution Becomes a Problem: The Decline of the Public Housing
Movement after the Housing Act of 1949
6 From Urban Redevelopment to Urban Renewal in the Southwest
Epilogue: Our War on Poverty, Not Yours on Slums
 
Appendix A: Social Scientists and the Changing Discourse on Slums and
Poverty: A Brief Note
Appendix B: Public Housing Built in San Antonio, Houston, Phoenix, and
Dallas, 1935-1965
Appendix C: Occupation of Initial Tenants of Cuney Homes Public Housing in
Houston
Appendix D: Total Number of Public Housing Units Built by Selected Cities
by 1967
Notes
Index