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dvancing
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ingdom
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premises, and rats larger than small dogs
were to be found everywhere”
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The
effect of this demolition and other urban
renewal projects during this time was
to dislocate many poor residents with
few to no other housing alternatives.
As part of President John F. Kennedy’s
New Frontier, additional federal housing
projects were undertaken. Picking up
where Kennedy’s tragic death left off,
Lyndon Johnson’s even more ambitious
Great Society created the largest public
housing projects in the United States.
Many of those dislocated by urban
renewal wound up in housing projects
near Kingdom House. Those dwellings
not removed as part of slum clearance
were cleared for new freeways.
Despite the ten thousand dollars
needed for September payroll and
A
B
P
hotos
:
A:
Newly completed
DarstWebbe Housing
Project
B:
Kingdom House
Board of Directors at
lunch