Review the Memo outlining services for displaced families. What services does the D.C. Department of Public Welfare believe should be provided for displaced families? What is the responsibility of local government and the responsibility of residents when displacement takes place? What do you think of these guidelines, do they make sense?
Review Edmund Purves letter to Louis Justement.
Why is Edmund Purves objecting to Louis Justement's legislation for Government land ownership? Does Purves' role within the American Institute of Architects have anything to do with it? What about Justement's role? Why would the construction industry not be happy with this legislation? Is the idea of Government ownership of land still considered a radical idea?
Review Earl T. Heitschmidt's letter to Louis Justement
and Philip B. Fleming's letter to Edmund R. Purves. What do these two letters say about government control and the type of government control that has and has not been acceptable within the United States? Are the ideas expressed in these letters a reflection of what was going on in the world at the time? In this day and age why would we probably not see a letter like Fleming's praising Russian Building Brigades?
