Housing Is Required for All Evicted From Slum Homes
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Title
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Housing Is Required for All Evicted From Slum Homes
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Repository
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Library of Virginia - Virginia Chronicle
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Date Created
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3/15/1963
Vol. 26, No. 136
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Creator
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Editorial
Northern Virginia Sun
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Description
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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.
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Index/Partial Transcript
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"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."
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Research Themes
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Housing Hygiene Ordinance
Eviction
Physical displacement
Discplacement in Place
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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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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.
