Urban Housing Dbq

In the Late nineteenth century the population was growing at a rapid pace. The country had people flooding the biggest cities in the country such as New York City and Chicago. These populations were gaining more and more people every single year and the country has to do something to make places for these people to live. The government would go on to create urban housing programs. These programs were created to make homes for these people to live in. At the time it provided a place for people to live but as the populations grew it became a more cramped and rundown area because of the large populations in one place. These reforms eventually led to these areas becoming dangerous, they were rundown, and it created a hole that was difficult for people to get out of.
With the urban housing reforms there were subsidized housing projects created for low income people. These areas at the time were a great idea. The country had millions of people flooding in every single

Since these were low income areas there wasn’t a high tax revenue to maintain the areas. This would cause in the infrastructures not being up to date or completely reliable. It is far to expensive to pay to renovate these areas and the issue also comes from who will pay for it. when there is a low income area that is heavily concentrated with people it becomes very difficult to upkeep that area which results in it becoming more and more rundown.
The last big effect that comes from the urban housing reform is that it makes it difficult for people to get out of those areas. Living in urban projects is not a place where many people wish to be but they have no choice if they can’t afford to get out of the area. Some people re only able to afford living in those areas or cannot get a job that pays high enough to move to someplace else. This has created a vicious circle of the areas becoming more run down and more