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Title
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Commission Asking Law Penalizing Slum Housing
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Repository
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Library of Virginia - Virginia Chronicle
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Date Created
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11/22/1960
Vol. 22, No. 8
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Creator
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Fairfax County Sun Echo
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Description
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Report on the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors hearing of the proposed housing hygiene law. Began the hearing process for implementation of the law. The framing of these sections as slums and as breeding grounds for disease and crime frames these geographies in a way that diminishes their claims to space and place - aiding in displacement in place, and creating a narrative of progress where the land must be improved no matter the cost (such as eviction, displacement).
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Index/Partial Transcript
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"'The conditions...adversely affect the surrounding areas, depress real estate values, comprise a threat to the public health, and afford a breeding ground of disease crime and misery,' a supervisor-appointed committee reported"
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Research Themes
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Housing Hygiene
Gum Springs
Eviction
Displacement in place
Myth of Progress
Board of Supervisors
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Type
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Newspaper
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Researcher Name
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Jacob Connelly
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Bibliographic Citation
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Fairfax County Sun Echo. “Commission Asking Law Penalizing Slum Housing.” November 22, 1960, Vol. 22, No. 8 edition. Library of Virginia.
