Introduction: The "public" in public housing -- pt. 1. The prehistory of public housing. -- Coping with the poor: techniques and institutions -- Rewarding upward mobility: public lands, private houses, and new communities -- pt. 2. Public housing in Boston. -- Building selective collectives, 1934-1954 -- Managing poverty and race, 1955-1980 -- The Boston Housing Authority since 1980: the Puritans return.
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