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CHPC would like to thank the Dickler Family Foundation for its leadership support of the preservation of our archive.
Over the last 70 years, CHPC has amassed a vast and unparalleled archive of primary source documents. Each month, our regular web feature Gems from the Archive profiles a new discovery from our collection.
In 1961, CHPC commissioned the first Executive Director of the Chicago Housing Authority, Elizabeth Wood, to conduct a study entitled Housing Design: A Social Theory.’ Ms Wood was a public housing pioneer who advocated racial and economic integration and the designing of workable neighborhoods.
Beginning with the sentence “Like all who have loved public housing for a long time, I have felt angry and frustrated at the sight of public housing projects that have the bleak, unloved look of army barracks and institutions”, this fascinating report covered recommendations for ways to make public housing more livable by providing facilities and… Read more...
In 1961, CHPC commissioned the first Executive Director of the Chicago Housing Authority, Elizabeth Wood, to conduct a study entitled Housing Design: A Social Theory.’ Ms Wood was a public housing pioneer who advocated racial and economic integration and the designing of workable neighborhoods.
Beginning with the sentence “Like all who have loved public housing for a long time, I have felt angry and frustrated at the sight of public housing projects that have the bleak, unloved look of army barracks and institutions”, this fascinating report covered recommendations for ways to make public housing more livable by providing facilities and… Read more...
On Wednesday July 13th, CHPC, along with Enterprise Community Partners, held a unique evening event to celebrate New York City’s housing policy history.
Guests from across the housing industry were invited to take part in a dramatic table reading of two pieces from CHPC’s incredible archive.
In rich poetic detail, reports from the first ever New York City code inspectors, describing their experiences of the Lower East Slums at the turn of the 20th century, were actually read by real-life code inspectors today! We were delighted to welcome so many code inspectors, including Vito Mustaciuolo, Deputy Commissioner for… Read more...
The Gem from the Archive this month is a remarkable booklet, published by the New York City Housing Authority, containing statistics on every New York City public housing project begun before June 1962.
The booklet contains an incredible depth of information on each of these projects and even includes information not currently available on the NYCHA website.
The booklet features federal, state, and city housing projects, including SRO rehabilitation projects, and includes such figures as each project’s total square and cube footage, land cost, construction cost per rental room, and site improvement and development costs per rental room.
This booklet… Read more...
The gem featured this month is a radio play written by CHPC to commemorate the centennial of Jacob Riis’ birth. The radio play, with official copyright filed by CHPC in 1949, was a dramatic narrative of Jacob Riis’ groundbreaking work uncovering the squalor of the slums and the impact of his photography and writing on the development of housing codes and enforcement.
We are not sure where this play aired originally, but we would love to organize a revival at some point! We have also found some other plays written by CHPC in our archive so keep an eye on… Read more...
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