Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-331) and index.
Immigration and community in the expanding metropolis -- Law, real estate, and praxis -- From tenement laws to housing authorities: social provision and the New Deal State -- Vision and reality: implementing policy on the local level -- The practitioner as scholar: urban studies and the conflict between "land" and "industry" -- Federal housing policies and the problem of a "Business Welfare State" -- "The walls of Stuvesant town": urban redevelopment and the struggle between public and private power -- The quest for open housing: racial discrimination and the role of the state -- Cold war, the United Nations, and "technical assistance" -- Urban renewal, the "perversion" of social reform, and home ownership for the poor -- "When the grey mist subsides."
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"Housing and the Democratic Ideal uses Abrams's experiences as a lens through which we can better understand the development of American social policy and state expansion during the twentieth century. In his left-leaning critique of centrist liberalism. Abrams took aim at the use of fiscal and monetary policies to achieve social objectives - a practice that allowed business interests to maximize private profits at the expense of public benefits. His growing concern over racial discrimination prefigured its emergence as a highly contested aspect of the American state."--BOOK JACKET.
Housing and the democratic ideal
Abrams, Charles,1902-1970.
Housing policy-- United States-- History-- 20th century.