Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and CurrencyPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Housing Amendments of 1949, Hearing Before a Subcommittee of ..., 81-1 on S. 2246 ..., July 26, 27, and 29, 1949
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and CurrencyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Reading List on Housing in the United States, 1948-53
Author: United States. Housing and Home Finance Agency. Office of the AdministratorPublisher:
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Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Housing Amendments of 1949
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and CurrencyPublisher:
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Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Considers S. 2246, to amend the National Housing Act.
Working-Class Utopias
Author: Robert M. FogelsonPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691237956
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
One of the nation’s foremost urban historians traces the history of cooperative housing in New York City from the 1920s through the 1970s As World War II ended and Americans turned their attention to problems at home, union leaders and other prominent New Yorkers came to believe that cooperative housing would solve the city’s century-old problem of providing decent housing at a reasonable cost for working-class families. Working-Class Utopias tells the story of this ambitious movement from the construction of the Amalgamated Houses after World War I to the building of Co-op City, the world’s largest housing cooperative, four decades later. Robert Fogelson brings to life a tumultuous era in the life of New York, drawing on a wealth of archival materials such as community newspapers, legal records, and personal and institutional papers. In the early 1950s, a consortium of labor unions founded the United Housing Foundation under the visionary leadership of Abraham E. Kazan, who was supported by Nelson A. Rockefeller, Robert F. Wagner Jr., and Robert Moses. With the help of the state, which provided below-market-rate mortgages, and the city, which granted tax abatements, Kazan’s group built large-scale cooperatives in every borough except Staten Island. Then came Co-op City, built in the Bronx in the 1960s as a model for other cities but plagued by unforeseen fiscal problems, culminating in the longest and costliest rent strike in American history. Co-op City survived, but the United Housing Foundation did not, and neither did the cooperative housing movement. Working-Class Utopias is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the housing problem that continues to plague New York and cities across the nation.
Additions to the Library
Author: International Labour Office. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Working class
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
Book Description
High Life
Author: Matthew LasnerPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030026934X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
The first comprehensive architectural and cultural history of condominium and cooperative housing in twentieth-century America. Today, one in five homeowners in American cities and suburbs lives in a multifamily home rather than a single-family house. As the American dream evolves, precipitated by rising real estate prices and a renewed interest in urban living, many predict that condos will become the predominant form of housing in the twenty-first century. In this unprecedented study, Matthew Gordon Lasner explores the history of co-owned multifamily housing in the United States, from New York City’s first co-op, in 1881, to contemporary condominium and townhouse complexes coast to coast. Lasner explains the complicated social, economic, and political factors that have increased demand for this way of living, situating the trend within the larger housing market and broad shifts in residential architecture and family life. He contrasts the prevalence and popularity of condos, townhouses, and other privately governed communities with their ambiguous economic, legal, and social standing, as well as their striking absence from urban and architectural history.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112119853346
Author: Subject Catalog of the Institute of Governmental Studies Library, University of California, Berkeley
Author: University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Governmental Studies. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Harvard University. Graduate School of Design. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description