Rockefeller Archive Center

Rockefeller Archive Center Research Reports are created by recipients of research travel stipends and by many others who have conducted research at the RAC. The reports demonstrate the breadth of the RAC's archival holdings, particularly in the study of philanthropy and its effects. Read more about the history of philanthropy at resource.rockarch.org. Also, see the RAC Bibliography of Scholarship, a comprehensive online database of publications citing RAC archival collections.

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Planning Through the Private Sphere and the Transformation of Reform in Early Twentieth Century America

January 1, 2010

The Rockefeller Foundation (RF) determined in the early 1920s that development of a program in housing reform was an appropriate field of activity, yet over the next two decades, it would repeatedly lament its failure to develop such a program. The RF's home city of New York occupied the national vanguard in housing reform, containing a dense network of organizations with a tradition of reform dating at least to the 1850s. While not always directly participating in groups such as the Association to Improve the Condition of the Poor, the Committee on the Congestion of Population, the Bureau of Municipal Research, the National Housing Association, committees on zoning, and others, RF officials remained part of the social world defined by organizations such as these. So it is probably natural that they wished to participate in this collective project, as an emblem of belonging to the reform community.

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