| The early20th century was a period of rapid urbanization for American while the housing problem in the modern sense began to appear.The economic crisis of the1930s brought greater pressure on urban housing and how to provide reasonable housing for low-income people became a matter of social and economic problem.To solve the housing problem,the federal government began a large-scale development of public housing for low-income persons to provide low-rent housing after Franklin Roosevelt became the president.Later in the20th century, public housing has been the main way for the federal government to solve the housing problems of low-income persons and it has also become an important content of the U.S. housing security system.This thesis deals with three parts which are introduction, text and conclusion.The introduction part introduces the significance of the topic,research status, as well as of the writing idea.The text is divided into four parts. The first part focuses on the background of the rise of the public housing in the United States in the early20th century, but also does a concrete analysis from three angles including the urbanization, which are the economic crisis and the change of ideas.The second part introduces the specific content of the early public housing policy that lay a particular emphasis on the government’s housing legislation and the development of public housing in charge of PWA and USHA,and also traces the development of public housing before the1930s.Based on the above content, the third part has carried on the summary to the characteristics of the public housing in the United States in the1930s and explores the negative influence of the public housing policy in the implementation process.The federal government provided affordable housing for low-income people but they ignored the improvement of their living environment which led to the poverty centralization phenomenon in public housing and exacerbated the isolation of the residential area causing related social-economic issues.The fourth part includes some enlightenments draw fonn the public housing policy of America in the1930s. The conclusion canrries a brief summary of this thesis and arguments and proposes some recommendations for China to develop the housing security system. |
