Louis, public housing was used as a segregation tool and played a huge role in the decline of Pruitt-Igoe. (sounds like the film) The Housing Act of 1949, Title I, the federal urban redevelopment program, was created to get rid of the slums and build better living conditions; however, most of the slum areas demolished, were in high demand locations. This meant those spaces were hardly ever replaced with affordable housing, forcing former residence to flee into areas of high poverty throughout the city. (put attribution here) “Given the high correlation between poverty and race, the combination of racial discrimination and the limited availability of affordable housing has had the effect of thrusting the poor into (or creating) neighborhoods with concentrated pockets of extreme poverty. Many commentators have claimed that this concentration of poverty has produced enormously negative societal consequences.” Written by Michael R. Diamond, these two sentences describe perfectly how public housing was used as a tool for segregation and aided in the failure of
Louis, public housing was used as a segregation tool and played a huge role in the decline of Pruitt-Igoe. (sounds like the film) The Housing Act of 1949, Title I, the federal urban redevelopment program, was created to get rid of the slums and build better living conditions; however, most of the slum areas demolished, were in high demand locations. This meant those spaces were hardly ever replaced with affordable housing, forcing former residence to flee into areas of high poverty throughout the city. (put attribution here) “Given the high correlation between poverty and race, the combination of racial discrimination and the limited availability of affordable housing has had the effect of thrusting the poor into (or creating) neighborhoods with concentrated pockets of extreme poverty. Many commentators have claimed that this concentration of poverty has produced enormously negative societal consequences.” Written by Michael R. Diamond, these two sentences describe perfectly how public housing was used as a tool for segregation and aided in the failure of