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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 ...
Where Mulberry Street crooks like an elbow within hail of the old depravity of the Five Points, is "the Bend", foul core of New York’s slums. Long years ago the cows coming home from the pasture trod a path over this hill. Echoes of tinkling bells linger there still, but they do not call up memories of green meadows and summer fields; they ...
How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (1890) is an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. The photographs served as a basis for future "muckraking" journalism by exposing the slums to New York City's upper and middle classes. They ...
The project had three goals: slum elimination, community engagement and education, and improving residents' access to services. The main goal of the project was slum elimination in the area. This was to be done by moving the families from their informal settlement into single-family homes in a newly developed area.
This photograph was taken in "The Bend," a dangerous and poor alley in Mulberry Street, in New York, that no longer exists.[5] [6]The Bend was the core of the "city tenement slums", [5] known for its crime ridden population of mostly Italian origin. [7]
It was the first instance in which Robert Moses' practice of "honest graft"—the method by which Slum Clearance chairman Moses distributed premiums, contracts and retainers to favored and incompetent friends—was revealed in the press. Under Title I, the plot of tenements worth $15 million (equivalent to $192 million in 2023) had been sold ...
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Out of Mulberry Street: Stories of Tenement Life in New York City. New York: Century. 1896. A Ten Years' War: An Account of the Battle with the Slum in New York. New York: Houghton Mifflin. 1900. The Making of an American. New York: Macmillan. 1901. Google Books, Archive.org, LibriVox recording; The Battle with the Slum. New York: Houghton ...