Archive | October 4, 2008

LBJ’s struggle to get Austin to accept public housing offers lessons for today

Seventy years ago here, in Austin Texas, Lyndon Johnson a young, first-term congressman took up the cause of housing the poor as one of his first initiatives. His proposal that Austin house its poor sparked then as it does today great controversy. It stirred up issues of class and race and questions about the role [...]

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