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The buildings are surrounded by lawns and gardens, a rarity in the fairly urban setting. The complex features a unique indoor swimming pool which is lined with Mercer tiles and has a retractable roof. Alden Park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 and on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places in 1981.
Nationwide, the first public housing projects were made possible by the New Deal's Public Works Administration (PWA) program and later by the U.S. Housing Act of 1937.The Act of 1937 (also known as the Wagner‐Steagall Act), provided subsidies to construct, own and manage public housing to local public housing agencies for “families whose incomes are so low that they cannot afford adequate ...
September 18, 1978 (1223–1225 Spring Street: Chinatown: 5: Amalgamated Center: Amalgamated Center: December 30, 2008 (2101–2143 South Street: Rittenhouse Square West: 6: Crozer Building
The Norman Blumberg Apartments, also known as the Blumberg Homes, were a 510-unit high rise public housing complex in the Sharswood neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Owned and operated by the Philadelphia Housing Authority , they were viewed by many as a symbol of the City's failure to address concentrated poverty and crime and were ...
Philadelphia serves as an example of urban growth, decline, and regrowth along with other industrial cities of the northeastern United States, including Worcester, Massachusetts; Providence, Rhode Island; and Newark and nearby Trenton, New Jersey. [5] Philadelphia has a longer history and arguably richer provenance than its competitor cities.
The Plaza Apartments, also known as Vernon House, is an historic, American apartment complex that is located in the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. [1]
Proposition 13 (officially named the People's Initiative to Limit Property Taxation) is an amendment of the Constitution of California enacted during 1978, by means of the initiative process, to cap property taxes and limit property reassessments to when the property changes ownership, and to require a 2/3 majority for tax increases in the ...
1978 California elections (1 C, 6 P) L. 1978 in Los Angeles (11 P) S. 1978 in San Francisco (4 P) 1978 in sports in California (2 C, 66 P) Pages in category "1978 in ...