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Slum upgrading is an integrated approach that aims to turn around downward trends in an area. These downward trends can be legal (land tenure), physical ...
The Emergency Relief and Construction Act of 1932 approved slum clearance loans and new low-rent housing, yet New York City was the only place where development occurred under the act. In 1933, the act was replaced with the National Industrial Recovery Act which focused on slum clearance and home construction for low-income families and ...
Permanent, federally funded housing came into being in the United States as a part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Title II, Section 202 of the National Industrial Recovery Act, passed June 16, 1933, directed the Public Works Administration (PWA) to develop a program for the "construction, reconstruction, alteration, or repair under public regulation or control of low-cost housing and slum ...
B eneath a gloomy white sky, more than 100 armed police poured into the slum of Badia East in the teeming megacity of Lagos, Nigeria. As they advanced, they cracked their batons on the unpaved streets and against the ramshackle walls of the shanties. “If you love your life, move out!” the officers shouted.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) says its $10 million Tenant Education and Outreach (TEO) grant will enable tenants in HUD-subsidized housing "to more effectively engage ...
Many were elderly and had been paying $4 to $8 a month in rent. Another slum clearance project led to the demolition of an additional 50 rooming houses between Westminster, Broad and Bridgham streets.
A rat-poop-filled Brooklyn apartment building has become the priciest slum in New York, residents claim. Multiple residents of the battered Bushwick site on Starr Street say they are paying nearly ...
Slum clearance removes the slum, but neglecting the needs of the community or its people, does not remove the causes that create and maintain the slum. [5] [6] Similarly, plans to remove slums in several non-Western contexts have proven ineffective without sufficient housing and other support for the displaced communities.