Tag Archives: Lower East Side

First Houses

Posted on May 30, 2015 by Glyn Robbins

Better housing happens where determined campaigns meet political will.  That’s what produced the UK’s first council estate, the Boundary (1900) in Bethnal Green and the first public housing in the US, ‘First Houses’ (1935) on 3rd Street in the Lower East … Continue reading →

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Stop the Blocks

Posted on May 28, 2015 by Glyn Robbins

The purpose of my visit to the US is to do the research for a book I’m going to write about the historic and current parallels between US and UK housing policy. Yesterday I joined a demonstration in the Lower … Continue reading →

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