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Could a bold anti-poverty experiment from the 1960s inspire a new era in housing justice?
- President Lyndon B. Johnson launched the Model Cities Program in 1966 as part of his Great Society agenda to fight poverty and racial injustice in the United States.
- The program required cities receiving funds to ensure widespread citizen participation in planning and overseeing local initiatives.
- In Atlanta, the Model Cities Program funded neighborhood health clinics and job training programs to support residents.
- Although designed during the 1960s optimism, the program began implementation under President Richard Nixon in 1969 and faced resistance from the start,.
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Could a bold anti-poverty experiment from the 1960s inspire a new era in housing justice?
The Great Society’s Model Cities Program wasn’t perfect. But it offered a vision of what democratic, community-based planning could look like.
·Cherokee County, United States
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