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the government demolished your neighborhood and called it progress.
means a mid-20th-century policy of bulldozing supposedly blighted urban areas and rebuilding them, usually clearing out poor and minority communities in the process.
from grew out of the US Housing Act of 1949, which funded cities to clear slums; critics soon renamed it slum removal or negro removal, since the neighborhoods razed were disproportionately black and poor.
nicknamejames baldwin called it negro removal
scaleover 2,000 us projects, millions displaced
highwaysinterstate construction doubled as renewal tool
reversaljane jacobs helped turn tide against it
for instance
pruitt-igoe — st louis towers imploded in 1972, 18 years after opening
treme new orleans — claiborne avenue oaks razed for interstate 10 in 1960s
south bronx — robert moses expressways gutted neighborhoods in 1950s-60s
boston west end — italian community leveled in 1958, 20000 displaced