Anti-Slum Housing Law Is Approved
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Title
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Anti-Slum Housing Law Is Approved
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Repository
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Library of Virginia - Virginia Chronicle
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Date Created
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6/22/1961
Vol. 21, No. 36
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Creator
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Fairfax County Sun Echo
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Description
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Article on the passage of the minimum housing standards (housing hygiene) ordinance. They note the important tag on the eviction clause that evictions would not be enforced for residents "if it would work a hardship on them." This clause was key to Gum Springs residents who faced serious trouble in the years following the passage of the housing hygiene ordinance. Finding affordable housing was one of the greatest challenges for Black residents of Fairfax, and those facing eviction from the ordinance. Often the inability to find replacement housing kept them in Gum Springs and they could resist displacement by eviction.
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Index/Partial Transcript
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"...the Board inserted in the new law a provisions [sic] that its terms would not be enforced by eviction of residents if it would work a hardship on them."
"Moving on to the next question -- where will the present occupants of the estimated 1,500 to 2,00 substandard dwellings move -- several of the witnesses at the Supervisors' public hearing urged measures to encourage construction of low-cost housing in the County."
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Research Themes
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Housing Hygiene
Slum
Affordable housing
Physical Displacement
Displacement in Place
Gum Springs
Slow Violence
Myth of Progress
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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. “Anti-Slum Housing Law Is Approved.” June 22, 1961, Vol. 21, No. 36 edition. Library of Virginia.
