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The New Military Revolution: Post-Industrial Change, Antulio J. Echevarria Ii, John M. Shaw
The New Military Revolution: Post-Industrial Change, Antulio J. Echevarria Ii, John M. Shaw
The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters
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Shelter The American Way: Federal Urban Housing Policy, 1900-1980, Ronald Dale Karr
Shelter The American Way: Federal Urban Housing Policy, 1900-1980, Ronald Dale Karr
New England Journal of Public Policy
American urban housing policy has featured subsidies for the suburban middle class and parsimonious spending for the urban poor. The outlines of this policy took shape during the Progressive Era: acceptance of the capitalistic market economy, support for the deserving poor needing temporary help, toleration of racial segregation, and the designation of overcrowding as the single most important urban problem. Progressive housing reformers championed stricter housing codes and model tenements, but housing conditions for the urban poor showed little improvement.
The U.S. government avoided direct involvement in housing until the early 1920s, when it promoted local zoning legislation. Under the …