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From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighbors.(Review) (book review)
American Prospect, The, April, 2001 by VON HOFFMAN, ALEXANDER
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From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighbors, by Lawrence J. Vale. Harvard University Press, 480 pages, $45.00.
In the category of good intentions gone awry, it is hard to beat the American public housing program.
Public housing was born in the 1930s when liberal pressure groups helped start a quintessential New Deal program that was intended not just to help the poor but to put the construction industry back to work. After a couple of decades of fairly smooth sailing, however, delinquency and social problems began to appear among residents in the ...
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