Few crusades stirred the passions of early progressives more than tenement reform. Although the reforms may have improved housing quality in many large cities, they also reduced housing affordability and availability, and thereby intensified another progressive worry: the practice of taking in lodgers.
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David T. Beito is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, Professor Emeritus at the University of Alabama, and author of The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance.
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Linda Royster Beito is Professor of Social Sciences and Dean of Arts and Science at Stillman College.
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| Other Independent Review articles by Linda Royster Beito | |
| Fall 2010 | Selling Laissez-faire Antiracism to the Black Masses: Rose Wilder Lane and the Pittsburgh Courier |
| Spring 2000 | Gold Democrats and The Decline of Classical Liberalism, 1896-1900 |
