LEADER 04996nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910813527903321 005 20240416151310.0 010 $a0-674-04457-6 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674044579 035 $a(CKB)1000000000786960 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050931 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000159116 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11151169 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000159116 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10159314 035 $a(PQKB)10175292 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300442 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10318435 035 $a(OCoLC)923111372 035 $a(DE-B1597)574327 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674044579 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300442 035 $a(OCoLC)1294425158 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000786960 100 $a20000321d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFrom the Puritans to the projects $epublic housing and public neighbors /$fLawrence J. Vale 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, MA $cHarvard University Press$d2000 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 460 p. )$cill., maps 300 $aOriginally published: 2000. 311 $a0-674-00286-5 311 $a0-674-02575-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [395]-448) and index. 327 $aIllustrations 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 Index 330 8 $aThis title is both a comprehensive institutional history of public housing in Boston and a broader examination of the nature and extent of public obligation to house socially and economically marginal Americans during the past 350 years.$bFrom 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. 606 $aPublic housing$zMassachusetts$zBoston$xHistory 606 $aHousing policy$zMassachusetts$zBoston$xHistory 606 $aPoor$zMassachusetts$zBoston$xHistory 615 0$aPublic housing$xHistory. 615 0$aHousing policy$xHistory. 615 0$aPoor$xHistory. 676 $a363.5850974461 700 $aVale$b Lawrence J.$f1959-$0298590 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813527903321 996 $aFrom the Puritans to the projects$94065911 997 $aUNINA