In the category of good intentions gone awry, it is hard to beat the Americanpublic housing program. Public housing was born in the 1930s when liberal pressure groups helped starta quintessential New Deal program that was intended not just to help the poor butto put the construction industry back to work. After a couple of […]
Alexander Hoffman
Historian Alexander von Hoffman is a fellow at Harvard University's Joint
Center for Housing Studies.

