Affiliation:
1. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA,
Abstract
This essay reexamines the history of public housing and the controversy it generated from the Great Depression to the Cold War. By recasting that history in the global arena, it demonstrates that the debate over public housing versus homeownership was also a debate over the meaning of American citizenship and democracy, pointing up starkly divergent notions about what was and was not American. Through an examination of national conflicts and neglected local struggles, this article further shows that the fight over public housing was far more meaningful and volatile than traditionally assumed. Both critics and advocates of public housing drew from international experiences and imagery in positioning the home as a constitutive feature of citizenship in American democracy. Fears of Bolshevism, fascism, and communism served to internationalize issues of race, space, and housing and together shaped the decision of whether a decent home was an American right or privilege.
Subject
Urban Studies,Sociology and Political Science,History
Reference3 articles.
1. Mary Susan Cole , "Catherine Bauer and the Public Housing Movement, 1926-1937" (Ph.D. dissertation, George Washington University , 1975), iv. See Bauer’s Modern Housing (1934).
2. A study in contradictions: The origins and legacy of the housing act of 1949
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