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- Title
REAL PROPERTY LAW AND MASS HOUSING NEEDS.
- Authors
SIEGEL, SHIRLEY ADELSON
- Abstract
The article focuses on the real property laws in the U.S. and the demand for mass housing. It analyzes the evolution of real property legislation and views on role of the state in housing. It discusses the history of the changes in the U.S. real property laws and their role in housing development, by dividing the history into threes stages. During the first stage, which lasted upto 19th Century, the government tried to maintain order in housing, property values, and town planning. During the second stage the state took the role of welfare due to problems of slum, epidemics and disease. In the third stage , since 1930s state entered partnerships with private land development projects. It further describes some of the legal problems in housing redevelopment and replanning projects.
- Subjects
UNITED States; HOUSING policy; REAL property; HOUSING laws; HOUSING development; REAL estate development; URBAN planning &; redevelopment law; EPIDEMICS; HISTORY
- Publication
Law & Contemporary Problems, 1947, Vol 12, Issue 1, p30
- ISSN
0023-9186
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1190117