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Title: From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighbors by Lawrence J. Vale ISBN: 0-674-00286-5 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: November, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Double-Binds, Double Trouble
Comment: Vale's marvelously detailed history of public housing in Boston from the early Puritan settlements to the present day tells the story of our "alternating current of compassion and hostility" toward the poor in the U.S. Through his exploration of public housing in Boston, Vale writes a compelling sociological history of the tensions inherent in the American dream of home ownership, government subsidy vs. free enterprise, and most valuable of all explores the ideology of homeownership and its bearing on citizenship. Dense, meditative, often wryly humorous, this is a deeply researched work which yields uncommon insights about mythic American values of community as expressed through public housing and public spaces.
Particularly well-rendered is the recurring theme of how the government used its powers to dispense and dispose of land to reward certain Americans. The U.S. soldier was the first, and continues to be, a singular actor in this drama of service and reward. In the Jeffersonian post-revolutionary war period, veterans were rewarded with grants of land. In so doing, the government empowered these men to do the work of settling the frontier -- who better to perform such a task than those already trained in war? Civil War veterans were similarly rewarded.
From there, other "deserving" populations were rewarded with housing -- those who demonstrated their commitment to an American standard of behavior: industriousness, cleanliness, responsiblity being some of the key attributes for qualification for early public housing. Vale describes, for instance, how public housing developments in the Depression and postwar era were also used by politicians to reward their supporters, especially deserving working-class poor families who fit a traditional dual parent, father/provider schematic.
The early chapters exploring the city fathers erection and administration of jails, insane asylums, shelters for the poor, and the concomitant rise the settlement movement and the social worker are particularly well-rendered. Great illustrations, too!
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Title: From Tenements to the Taylor Homes: In Search of an Urban Housing Policy in Twentieth-Century America by John F. Bauman, Roger Biles, Kristin M. Szylvian ISBN: 027102013X Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States by Kenneth T. Jackson ISBN: 0195049837 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: April, 1987 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Federal Government and Urban Housing: Ideology and Change in Public Policy by R. Allen Hays, Allen R. Hays ISBN: 0791423263 Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr Pub. Date: March, 1995 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Beyond Entitlement by Lawrence M. Mead ISBN: 0743224957 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 28 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Undeserving Poor by Michael Katz ISBN: 067972561X Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 03 January, 1990 List Price(USD): $20.40 |
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