Brochure, Gratiot Redevelopment Project, cover, 1964

Brochure, Gratiot Redevelopment Project, cover, 1964

Cavanagh, Jerome P. | Detroit--Economic conditions | Detroit--Politics and government | Detroit--Race relations | Urban renewal--Michigan--Detroit | Housing developments | Housing developments--Michigan--Detroit--1960-1970 | Gratiot Redevelopment (Detroit, Michigan) | Gratiot Redevelopment (Detroit, Michigan)--1960-1970

Envisioned and designed to build a "new type of inner city habitation," Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh released the final report for the Gratiot Redevelopment Project in 1964, eighteen years after planning began. Detroit was the first city in the United States to implement residential redevelopment under the Federal Housing Act of 1949. The project cleared 129 acres including, most notably, the Black Bottom and Paradise Valley areas, displacing Black families and businesses. Some individuals and families remained in what was left of the neighborhoods and others moved to public housing developments, but the Field Relocation Office could not trace every person after they were forced out. June 30, 1964. Carl Almblad Papers, Box 12, Folder 43.

Carl Almblad Papers

Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University.

June 30, 1964

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