Assembly Line Housing: Walter P. Reuther, George Romney, and Operation Breakthrough – Part 2

23/08/2018 28 min
Assembly Line Housing: Walter P. Reuther, George Romney, and Operation Breakthrough – Part 2

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In the second of a two-part series, Dr. Kristin M. Szylvian explains how racial segregation and the fear of declining property values ultimately scuttled Operation Breakthrough, a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Program early in the Nixon administration to use union-made manufactured housing to create racially- and economically-integrated housing communities throughout the country. … Continue reading Assembly Line Housing: Walter P. Reuther, George Romney, and Operation Breakthrough – Part 2

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