04999nam 2200613Ia 450 991077816510332120221108025542.00-674-04457-610.4159/9780674044579(CKB)1000000000786960(StDuBDS)AH23050931(SSID)ssj0000159116(PQKBManifestationID)11151169(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000159116(PQKBWorkID)10159314(PQKB)10175292(Au-PeEL)EBL3300442(CaPaEBR)ebr10318435(OCoLC)923111372(DE-B1597)574327(DE-B1597)9780674044579(MiAaPQ)EBC3300442(OCoLC)1294425158(EXLCZ)99100000000078696020000321d2000 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrFrom the Puritans to the projects[electronic resource] public housing and public neighbors /Lawrence J. ValeCambridge, MA Harvard University Press20001 online resource (xiii, 460 p. )ill., mapsOriginally published: 2000.0-674-00286-5 0-674-02575-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-448) and index.Illustrations Tables Introduction: The "Public" in Public Housing Public Housing as an American Problem Housing the Public Neighbor Public Housing in Boston PART I: THE PREHISTORY OF PUBLIC HOUSING 1. Coping with the Poor: Techniques and Institutions The Moral Geography of Puritan Space New Institutions for Indoor Relief Tenement Reform Settlement Houses Ideal Tenement Districts 2. Rewarding Upward Mobility: Public Lands, Private Houses, and New Communities Frontier Individualism on Public Lands Homesteads in the Boston Suburbs Residential Districts Communities by Design Public Neighborhoods without Public Neighbors PART II: PUBLIC HOUSING IN BOSTON 3. Building Selective Collectives, 1934-1954 Boston's Selective Collectives Public Works and Private Markets Public Housing as Slum Reform Public Housing as War Production (1940 -1945) Public Housing as Veterans' Assistance (1946 -1954) The Authority Is Watching 4. Managing Poverty and Race, 1955-1980 The Geopolitics of Public Housing Urban Renewal Rewarding the Elderly The Mechanisms of Patronage Racial Discrimination and the BHA Battles within the Bureaucracy The Decline and Fall of the BHA 5. The Boston Housing Authority since 1980: The Puritans Return The Receivership Four Redevelopment Efforts in the 1980's The Politics of Public Housing Preferences Getting Beyond Receivership Boston Public Housing in the 1990's Ideological Retrenchment From the Puritans to the Projects Notes Credits IndexThis title is both a comprehensive institutional history of public housing in Boston and a broader examination of the nature and extent of public obligation to house socially and economically marginal Americans during the past 350 years.From the almshouses of seventeenth-century Puritans to the massive housing projects of the mid-twentieth century, the struggle over housing assistance in the United States has exposed a deep-seated ambivalence about the place of the urban poor. Lawrence J. Vale's groundbreaking book is both a comprehensive institutional history of public housing in Boston and a broader examination of the nature and extent of public obligation to house socially and economically marginal Americans during the past 350 years. First, Vale highlights startling continuities both in the way housing assistance has been delivered to the American poor and in the policies used to reward the nonpoor. He traces the stormy history of the Boston Housing Authority, a saga of entrenched patronage and virulent racism tempered, and partially overcome, by the efforts of unyielding reformers. He explores the birth of public housing as a program intended to reward the upwardly mobile working poor, details its painful transformation into a system designed to cope with society's least advantaged, and questions current policy efforts aimed at returning to a system of rewards for responsible members of the working class. The troubled story of Boston public housing exposes the mixed motives and ideological complexity that have long characterized housing in America, from the Puritans to the projects.Public housingMassachusettsBostonHistoryHousing policyMassachusettsBostonHistoryPoorMassachusettsBostonHistoryPublic housingHistory.Housing policyHistory.PoorHistory.363.5850974461Vale Lawrence J.1959-298590MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778165103321From the Puritans to the projects3693298UNINA