Social housing

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Unlike "public housing," the term "social housing" may include a wider range of cases including the significant earlier history of private social housing, e.g. Tower Buildings in Brooklyn, 1879. 

 

from @LondonYIMBY:

Interesting short history of over a century of social housing from the House of Commons Library 
http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/research/olympic-britain/housing-and-home-life/build-it-up-sell-it-off/

 

YIMBYwiki previously lived next to US's 1st and 1st public housing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Houses and then1st model tenement, the Tower Buildings, 1877 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/realestate/12scap.html
 

References

• Gray, Christoper. "Architectural Wealth, Built for the Poor."  New York Times. 10 Oct, 2008. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/realestate/12scap.html. 
  [on the Tower Buildings, in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, 1879 -- considered the 1st US model tenement].
   
• UK House of Commons. short history of over a century of social housing from the House of Commons Library. http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/research/olympic-britain/housing-and-home-life/build-it-up-sell-it-off/.
   
• Wikipedia. "First Houses." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Houses.