Title

Housing Is Required for All Evicted From Slum Homes

Repository

Library of Virginia - Virginia Chronicle

Date Created

3/15/1963
Vol. 26, No. 136

Creator

Editorial
Northern Virginia Sun

Description

Editorial on the eviction situation surrounding the housing hygiene ordinance. After nearly two years since its implementation, newspapers like the Northern Virginia Sun who were proponents of the ordinance, and staunch supporters of the need for eviction start to call for a change in the approach to administering the code. They note the historic inability for urban renewal projects to address the need for building homes that keep residents in their neighborhoods and not be removed/move to new slums.

Index/Partial Transcript

"Certainly Fairfax County has a right to enforce its laws to maintain sanitation but equally it has a responsibility to find a way to help the people whose living quarters it condemns."

"This brings to mind one great weakness of urban renewal projects. Too often tenements - which should be removed - are, in fact, removed, but then replace with living accomodations too expensive for the dislocated residents who lived in the same tenements."

Research Themes

Housing Hygiene Ordinance
Eviction
Physical displacement
Discplacement in Place

Type

Newspaper

Researcher Name

Jacob Connelly

Bibliographic Citation

Northern Virginia Sun. “Housing Is Required for All Evicted From Slum Homes.” March 15, 1963, Vol. 26, No. 136 edition, sec. Editorial. Library of Virginia.