Abstract
Public housing began as a response to economic problems: In order to increase employment and provide low income housing, the federal Public Works Administration (PWA) in 1934 started to build and manage housing projects. The 1,018-unit Old Harbor Village in South Boston (later renamed the Mary Ellen McCormick project) was one of the first of these developments. The role of the PWA was short-lived, however. After several court decisions denied the federal government eminent domain to acquire and clear slum property, the PWA extricated itself from the program. Since that time, the federal government’s role has been to provide debt financing to localities for the purpose of building projects, operating subsidies, and guidelines for construction and management through the Public Housing Administration.1
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Pynoos, J. (1986). The Emergence of Rules. In: Breaking the Rules. Environment, Development, and Public Policy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2217-7_2
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