Jacqueline Brandon M.A. Candidate, The History of Women and Gender New York University.

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Jacqueline Brandon M.A. Candidate, The History of Women and Gender New York University

An East Village tenement, 1945

“A woman and her infant pose in their slum kitchen in the Navy Yard section of Brooklyn, February 27, These buildings were cleared away to build the 1952 Farragut Houses.”

“Hudson family kids in their tenement apartment at 148 East 97 th street, another East Harlem block considered for slum clearance but on which no projects were built, 07/01/1940. The Hudson family was relocated to the new Vladeck Houses in Lowers Manhattan.”

Lillian Wald Houses Before

Lillian Wald Houses Architectural Plans

Lillian Wald Houses After

NYCHA 1947 Annual Report: “Fort Greene Houses—A Notorious Brooklyn Slum Just a Few Years Ago

Jacob Riis Houses

NYCHA 1953 Tenant Selection Policy Birth of out-of-wedlock Separations of husband and wife Single parenthood Parents under 19 years old Lack of parent control over children Unmarried couple together less than two years Poor housekeeping

“A Tenant at Jacob Riis Houses Apparently Being Interviewed By NYCHA Manager,” Circa May 1954

1972 demolition of the Pruitt-Igoe Houses in St. Louis

“Once upon a time, we thought that if we could just bulldoze the slums and build shiny new housing for low income people, all social problems involving these people would virtually disappear. That has turned out to be not so.” –Mayor Wagner, 1962

Sources Slum photo East Village: Slum photo Farragut: Children in Slums: Lillian Wald Before: Lillian Wald Plans: Lillian Wald After: Nuclear Family Slide 1: NYCHA 1951 Annual Report, 13 and NYCHA 1947 Annual Report, LaGuardia Wagner Archive, Box 98D1, Folder 7, 14 Nuclear Family Slide 2: NYCHA 1944 Annual Report, 64 and NYCHA 1949 Annual Report, 27 Nuclear Family Slide 3: NYCHA 1951 Annual Report. Lawn and playground: NYCHA 1947 Annual Report, 40. Tenant Selection Policy Slide: Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century, Appendix B, Tenant Being Interviewed Slide: LaGuardia and Wagner Digital Archive, Photo # Pruitt-Igoe Slide: Wagner Quotation: Mayor Wagner, Address to the National Conference on Social Welfare May 27, 1962, quoted in Bloom, 124.