A History of Housing in New York City by Richard Plunz

Author:Richard Plunz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ARC010000, Architecture/Urban & Land Use Planning, HIS036100, History/United States/New York
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2016-10-11T00:00:00+00:00

Figure 8.8. Serge Chermayeff. “Park-Type Apartments” study, published in 1943 to demonstrate the possibilities for the efficient incorporation of a wide range of apartment sizes and types within conventional slab block massing, exhibited at the Architectural League coincidental with announcements of the design for Stuyvesant Town.

Figure 8.9. Marcel Breuer. Alternative site plan for Stuyvesant Town, which reduced the coverage by 20 percent and the density by 20 percent; published in the interest of “comparative study” in 1944.

The low cost of the suburban single-family house was subsidized heavily by the federal government, indirectly through the building of the highway and service infrastructure, and directly through mortgage insurance and tax laws. In his study for the Brookings Institution, Henry Aaron documented the degree to which the single-family house was subsidized by government policy after World War II. By the end of the war, all of the enabling mechanisms for the mortgage guarantees had been long established. Most dated from the New Deal: the Federal Home Loan Bank system in 1932, the FHA loan guaranty programs in 1934, and the Veterans’ Home Loan Guaranty Program in 1944. More important than the mortgage guarantees were the income tax laws, which even today continue to give substantial advantage to home owners. According to Aaron:

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