"The Projects" (public housing projects) (1939)

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OED is at "P" and I'd like to know what it has for "Projects." I'd like to add it to my NYC web page. (That should have the 1937 Big Apple song attached sometime soon, before I die.)

"Projects" mean "housing projects." Or maybe people live in their science projects?


(PROQUEST HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS) ("live in the projects")
OFFICIALS AT ODDS ON STATE SLUM BILL; Legislative Hearing Reveals Widely Divergent Views on Sum to Be Authorized LABOR FOR $300,000,000 But Other Speakers Urge Caution--Real Estate Groups Oppose Pending Plans Points of Difference Letter From La Guardia Is Read Urges Powers for Zoning Boards Calls 65,000 Tenements "Unfit" A.F.L. Man Hits Realty Groups
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.. New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Mar 2, 1939. p. 4 (1 page):
In general, they held that under the present plans for the proposed housing projects, the lower-income groups could not afford to live in the projects, and, as a result, the housing program would not help those who needed it most but would, in effect, set up a State-subsidized real estate market which would compete "unfairly" with private industry.

NEGROES CHARGE JIM CROWISM IN FEDERAL HOUSING; Only 35 Families Assisted, Leaders Assert.
Chicago Daily Tribune (1872-1963). Chicago, Ill.: Jun 28, 1939. p. 4 (1 page):
Horace Clayton, director of a Negro research project for the University of CHicago--"Negro families have applied to the housing authority for permission to live in the projects and have not been accepted."

PRIEST FEARS 'GHETTO' FOR BLIND VETERANS
New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Aug 26, 1950. p. 15 (1 page) :
He said the blinded veterans and their families would live in the project apartment building only during a rehabilitation period--perhaps six months or a year--after which the organization would help them go wherever they wished.

Killing at Red Hook Houses Makes Many Fear to Go Out
By PAUL L. MONTGOMERY. New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Nov 23, 1970. p. 39 (1 page):
The patrolmen say most of the predatory youths are addicts who live in the project.

Rising Crime Stirs Fear On the Lower East Side
By LESLEY OELSNER. New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Sep 22, 1971. p. 51 (1 page) :
Several Housing Authority policemen, however, and some project tenants as well, say it is just as likely the young addicts who live in the projects with their parents.




Graffiti Cleanups a 'Lark' for the Young-; Housing Authority printed a cartoon in its publication as part of the drive against defacement. Transit men envy the authority's success.
By ROBERT E. TOMASSON. New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Apr 21, 1974. p. 537 (1 page) :
Transit officials speak almost with envy of the jurisdiction the Housing Authority can exercise over the families of offenders who live in the projects.