". . .With the publication of two books dealing with the nature of slumsand their owners, some of these concerns can be elaborated. The first ofthe two, Let In the Sun, by Woody Klein, is a case study of a single new lawtenement located at 311 East 100th Street, on New York City's 'worstblock.' It is a heartrending account of city life at its ultimate worst, and isreminiscent of Riis' and Steffens' works of a half century or more ago. It isalso subject to the same limitations of Cook's and Gleason's 'The Shame ofNew York,' which Roger Starr said 'confused housing, one of the city's mosttroublesome problems, in a flood of moral oversimplification' . . ."
Description:An assessment of U.S. housing policy with attention to Woody Klein's 1964, "Let in the Sun."
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