Action Needed in Fairfax To Curb Slum Breeding

Title: Action Needed in Fairfax To Curb Slum Breeding
Repository: Library of Virginia - Virginia Chronicle
Date Created: 3/8/1961
Vol. 24, No. 132
Creator: Editorial
Northern Virginia Sun
Description: Editorial on the need for a housing hygiene ordinance as a way to "curb slum breeding," and take action against slumlords and blighted property. By marking sites of Black geographies as slums that are breeding grounds for problems that need to be attacked, they are viewed as dirty, violent and hostile and in this articles case - "lacking human decency." They are framed as in the way of the greater goals of progress in Fairfax, playing into narratives that form the myth of progress.
Index/Partial Transcript: "What the county plainly needs is a cessation of talk and the prompt adoption of a good stiff ordinance with teeth in it to force slum landlords to bring their property up to a level of common human decency."
Research Themes: Housing Hygiene
Slum
Physical Displacement
Displacement in Place
Gum Springs
Slow Violence
Myth of Progress
Type: Newspaper
Researcher Name: Jacob Connelly
Relation: County Lacks Anti-Slum Weapon
Bibliographic Citation: Northern Virginia Sun. “Action Needed in Fairfax To Curb Slub Breeding.” March 8, 1961, Vol. 24, No. 132 edition, sec. Editorial. Library of Virginia.

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