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National Housing Act of 1949
The law’s name is wrong: the 1949 federal statute was the Housing Act of 1949, not the National Housing Act of 1949.
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The federal law that funded postwar urban renewal and public-housing programs in 1949 is officially titled the Housing Act of 1949. The National Housing Act is a different U.S. law from 1934.
Government sources identify Public Law 81-171 as the Housing Act of 1949, and HUD’s historical timeline likewise lists the 1949 and 1968 housing statutes under that name. So the article’s wording misnames the statute.
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- Housing Act of 1949 - COMPS-10349 | GovInfo
GovInfo’s title for Public Law 81-171 is “Housing Act of 1949.”
- HUD History | U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD’s official history refers to later laws as the “Housing Act of 1968” and does not use “National Housing Act of 1949”; the 1949 statute is the Housing Act of 1949.
Der Schiedsspruch des obersten Gerichtshofes im Fall Brown v. Board of Education erklärte jedoch 1954, also noch in der Bauphase, die Rassentrennungspolitik für illegal.
Brown v. Board of Education did not make segregation policy in general illegal; it held racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
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This overstates the scope of Brown v. Board of Education. The Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling was specifically about public schools. The National Archives’ summary of the case states that the Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional and that the decision ended legalized racial segregation in the schools.
That matters here because the article claims Brown generally made “Rassentrennungspolitik” illegal. It did not. Housing discrimination and segregation were addressed through other legal and policy developments, and HUD’s own official history notes that the Fair Housing Act of 1968 outlawed most housing discrimination. So Brown cannot accurately be described as a 1954 ruling that made segregation policy in general illegal.
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- Brown v. Board of Education (1954) | National Archives
The National Archives says the Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional and that the decision ended legalized racial segregation in the schools of the United States.
- HUD History | U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD’s official history states that the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (the Fair Housing Act) “outlaws most housing discrimination,” showing that Brown was not the general nationwide ban on segregation policy described here.
Es bestand von den 1950er Jahren bis zum Abriss 1972.
1972 was the start of demolition, not the end of the complex’s existence; federal sources say the razing was completed in 1976.
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This compresses the demolition timeline in a misleading way. Federal sources distinguish between the start of demolition in 1972 and the completion of razing in 1976.
HUD USER states that the first tenant moved in in 1954, that the city demolished three towers on July 15, 1972, and that “By 1976, the razing of Pruitt-Igoe was complete.” EPA likewise describes the site as “Once demolished in 1976” and labels the redevelopment story with “Demolition of Pruitt Igoe in 1976.”
So saying the complex existed only “bis zum Abriss 1972” is inaccurate: demolition began in 1972 but the full demolition was not completed until 1976.
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- Why Did Pruitt-Igoe Fail? | HUD USER
HUD USER says the first tenant moved in in 1954, three towers were demolished on July 15, 1972, and “By 1976, the razing of Pruitt-Igoe was complete.”
- From Triage to Recovery: Pruitt Igoe Becomes New Medical Campus in St. Louis | US EPA
EPA describes “Demolition of Pruitt Igoe in 1976” and says, “Once demolished in 1976, the site remained vacant until the 1990s.”