This article discusses how urban clearances made possible by the Housing Acts of 1949 and 1954 led to the displacement of black and poor people across the United States.
The Boston-1915 Committee was formed to advance the cause of civic beauty and sanitary housing. This report examines substandard housing conditions then existing in various parts of Boston. Illustrated with photographs.
This online museum relates the history of the West End neighborhood and its demolition in the 1950s to make way for the construction of Government Center and the elevated Southeast Expressway.