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Just wondering if anyone has taken a decent look at the impacts of eliminating the 1949 Housing Act? It seems to take a lot of the blame for both facilitating sprawl and white flight while also building much of the worst inner city public housing. Interesting TLs could reasonably alter this in any number of ways... but what kind of timeline are we looking at without the act at all? Anybody have thoughts on whether the act alone would be enough to significantly improve the health of major American cities? On the other hand, would there be a real threat of a housing affordability crisis without a good chunk of the subsidies for suburban development in the fifties and sixties?
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