A single housing code standard cannot serve both slums and conservation areas

Evidence

Formulation of code standards to cover both slum areas and conservation areas poses a difficult problem, since any code which is designed to provide effective nini-num standards in slum areas will necessarily prove inadequate in realizing the conservation potential of the code, and a standard designed for conservation would be at best only partially enforceable in slums. C-nsequently, it has been suggested that housing codes be established on a “zoned” basis, Aith different standards for those areas which are eventually to be razed, those which can be rehabilitated while pre- serving ‘ost present structures, and those in which existing values are sought to be maintained. — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process, 236

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ‘zoned’ housing code concept — different standards for areas to be razed versus rehabilitated — useful reference scaffolding for legal institutions.
• XREF: Ties into Course 1’s institutional-law theme: codes as instruments whose design choices encode which neighborhoods the state intends to preserve or abandon. — connects to: Housing quality incentives depend on neighborhood character, demanding area-based planning — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 408; Federal aid conditioned local housing codes on workable anti-slum programs — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 227; Tenement housing laws could not overcome underlying urban poverty — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 2651

Broader Connections

• Tenement housing laws could not overcome underlying urban poverty #qualifies (0.72) — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 2651