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Title: Slum Clearance and Urban Renewal in the United States, 1949-1974

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Publication Year: 2009

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Abstract: Title I of the Housing Act of 1949 established a federally subsidized program that helped cities clear areas of existing buildings for redevelopment, rehabilitate deteriorating structures, complete comprehensive city plans, and establish and enforce building codes. The program ended in 1974, but not before financing over 2,000 urban renewal projects and generating great controversy. We use an instrumental variable strategy to measure the effects of urban renewal funding on several city-level labormarket and housing market outcomes. The preliminary results indicate that the program had positive and economically significant effects on a number of outcomes. We caution that the results do not imply that urban renewal, as implemented under Title I, was an equitable or optimal approach to dealing with central-city problems.

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Authors: Collins, William J.; Shester, Katharine L.

Publisher: Vanderbilt University

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Topics: Housing and Segregation

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