Bangor's Housing Code Enforcement Program, Aug. 1956-Dec. 1961
- Title
- Bangor's Housing Code Enforcement Program, Aug. 1956-Dec. 1961
- Date
- February 26, 1962
- Description
- In May 1955, the Bangor City Planning Board received a report outlining Bangor's housing problems and prospects, "with a view toward establishing a local housing policy and program." Several of the recommendations of this report have been accomplished. A Housing Code was adopted. An Urban Renewal Authority was created. The City is about to execute its first redevelopment project. A section of this report is herewith quoted as a point of reference to evaluate the progress of housing, improvement in the past several years. "If Bangor's housing as a totality is to be kept from settling into a state or progressive degradation, means will have to be provided to assure; (1) the conversion of the precious existing supply of good dwellings and neighbornonds, (2) the rehabilitation of salvable dwellings and neighborhoods and (3) the studied elimination and redevelopment of certain cancer-like growths of blight and shums in existence in the community today.
- Subject
- Bangor (Me.)--History--20th Century
- City planning--Maine--Bangor
- Housing--Maine--Bangor
- Public health--Maine--Bangor
- Urban policy--Maine--Bangor
- Urban renewal--Maine--Bangor
- Spatial Coverage
- Bangor (Me.)
- Language
- English
- Is Part Of
- Bangor Public Library Special Collections
- Rights
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