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Public housing in Charlottesville: The black experience in a small Southern City

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The Review of Black Political Economy

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The history and public policies related to the public housing program are presented within the context of a small southern city, Charlottesville, Virginia. Consistent with the stormy beginnings of public housing nationally, the article reveals that the early days of the program in Charlottesville also were troubled. City policies to affect the residential mix of housing are shown to have limited the quality of affordable housing available to the poor and especially to low-income blacks. Programs designed by the city to overcome some of these disadvantages through both home ownership and renting also are discussed.

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Notes

  1. “Text of City’s Petition,”Char lotte sville Daily Progress (April 18, 1960), p. 2.

  2. Karl Runser, “Housing Site Dropped,”Charlotte sville Daily Progress (September 9, 1966), p. 1.

  3. “NAACP Again Says No to Housing,”Charlottesville Daily Progress (April 21,1967), p. 25.

  4. “Foundation Plans 82 Housing Units,”Charlottesville Daily Progress (October 22, 1969), p. B-l.

  5. Bill Akers, “Council Agrees on Housing Needs in Formal Statement,”Charlottesville Daily Progress (March 4, 1969), p. 11.

  6. Kathleen Brunet, “City to Fight HUD on Housing Policy,”Charlottesville Daily Progress (August 8, 1986), p. A-l.

  7. Jim Ketcham-Colwill, “Some Are Too Poor For Public Housing,”Charlottesville Daily Progress (July 24, 1983), p. A-l.

  8. Ibid, p. A-12.

  9. Jessie Bond, “City Unlikely to Add Public Housing,”Charlottesville Daily Progress (October 7, 1985), p. A10.

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  12. In an unpublished working paper completed in September 1990, the author and Ted Shekell found support that redlining practices appear to be present in two majority black neighborhoods in the city of Charlottesville.

  13. Mittie Olion Chandler,Urban Homesteading: Programs and Policies (New York: Greenwood Press, 1988), p. 31.

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  14. Gerald D. Jaynes and Robin M. Williams, Jr. eds.,A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society (Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1989), pp.. 315–323.

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  1. William M. Harris
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  2. Nancy Olmsted
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Harris, W.M., Olmsted, N. Public housing in Charlottesville: The black experience in a small Southern City. Rev Black Polit Econ 19, 161–174 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02895342

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