From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighbors

By Lawrence J. Vale

Book Overview

From the almshouses of 17th-century Puritans to the massive housing projects of the mid-20th century, the struggle over housing assistance in the United States has exposed a deep-seated ambivalence about the place of the urban poor. Lawrence J. Vale's groundbreaking book is both a comprehensive institutional history of public housing in Boston and a broader examination of the nature and extent of public obligation to house socially and economically marginal Americans during the past 350 years.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674002865
• ISBN13: 9780674002869
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 482 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.2" x 6.4"