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What year was the first model tenement built in NYC	1855
1867 Tenement House Law what did it do?	– required new tenement buildings to provide a narrow air shaft between adjacent structures, windows, two toilets, and windows
Jacob Riis book. What is it called and when did he write it?	How the other half lives 1890
1901 Tenement House Law what did it do	outlawed dumbbell tenaments, required wide light, air, toilets and running water
PublicWorks Administration (PWA) when was it created, what did it do?	Helped build housing – first federally supported public housing program 1934
1934 National Housing Act	– created the Federal Housing Administration – purpose to insure home mortgages
Resettlement Administration, what year, what did it do?	1935 – uses New Deal Funds to build new town – Greenbelt towns – Rexford Tugwell
1937 Housing Act	–“Wagner-Steagall Act” - $500 million in loans for development of low cost housing from the Feds to local housing authorities. – led to clearance of the slums
Servicemans Readjustment Act, what year	– 1944 - GI bill guaranteed home loans to vets, led to rapid development of suburbs
1949 Housing Act	– first comprehensive housing bill. called for construction of 800,000 new housing units emphasized slum clearance. Trumann’s “Fair Deal”- focused on urban redevelopment.
1954 – Housing Act	– provided $ for cities under 25,000 – focused on urban renewal
1959 – Housing Act	– federal matching funds for comp planning at all levels (local, regional, state, intersate)
1961 – Housing Act	- $ to organizations building housing projects for others to rent
When was HUD formed and what act formed it?	1965 – HUD formed through Housing and Urban Development ACT
Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act, what year, what did it do?	– 1966 model cities program -financial incentives for coordinated metro area planning. Helped to ensure that federal grant money was being spent on the right projects.
1968 – Housing and Urban Development Act	– 6 million subsidized housing units
The Civil Rights Act/Fair Housing Act what year, why is it significant	1968 – racial discrimination in the sale or rental of housing illegal
1970 – Miami Valley Regional Planning Commision	– Ohio, housing plan that called for low and moderate income housing allocated on a fair share basis
1972 – Pruitt-Igoe Project	demolished in Saint Louis – shift away from high rise public housing. The death of “modern” architecture
1974 Housing and Community Development Act	creates Community Devleopment block Grant Program (CDBG) – communities use funds to improve blighted area, created section 8
1974 – National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Act	– regulates manufactured homes, and prohibits local municipalities from doing so.
1977 – Urban Development Action Grant Program (UDAG)	– public private partnerships for redevelopment of urban areas.
1990 – National Affordable housing act	creates the HOME program – funds for housing rehab
Hope VI, what year, what is it?	1992 – redevelopment of distressed public housing (Chicago taylor homes) – Mixed income housing used to revitalize gvt.
Consolidated plan	– community identifies housing, homeless, and community development needs. must be completed by a community to receive federal funds from housing
Homestead Act	1862 president Lincoln. freehold title to 160 acres (1/4 section) of undeveloped land outside of the original 13 colonies. 1.6 mil homesteads were granted and 270 mil acres were privatized between 1862 and 1986, 10% of all lands in the US.
Robert Moses	NYC urban renewal; HUGE amounts of work roads, bridges, etc..; Built lots of housing including Stuyvesant town in Brooklyn; scorned revitalization; plan to tear down jane Jacobs neighborhood started her book
Federal National Mortgage association	– Fannie Mae chartered by Congress in 1968 – purchase and securitize mortgages in order to ensure that funds are consistently available to the institutions that lend money to home buyers.
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation	– Freddie Mac - expand the secondary market for mortgages in the US. Along with other GSEs, Freddie Mac buys mortgages on the secondary market, pools them, and sells them as mortgage-backed securities to investors on the open market.
FHFA	Federal Housing and Finance Agency
Conservatorship -	subjected to the legal control of an external entity or organization. Fannie mae and Fred Mac are in conservatorship of FHFA
CDBG	funds local community development activities such as affordable housing, anti-poverty programs, and infrastructure development. subject to less federal oversight and used at the discretion of the state and local governments. Consolidated plan required.
Section 8	– voucher program for low income families and individuals originally authorized during the Great depression with the Housing act of 1937. tenants pay about 30% of their income towards rent, federal government pays the rest.
HOME	provides formula grants to States and localities that communities use to fund a wide range of activities that build, buy, and/or rehabilitate affordable housing for rent or homeownership or provide direct rental assistance to low-income people.
ROSS	Resident opportunities for self sufficiency – links public housing residents with public services – seniors and people with disabilities.
The Empowerment Zone Program	three congressional designations -Renewal Communities (RCs), Empowerment Zones (EZs) and Enterprise Communities (ECs. ommunities who maybe eligible for a combination of grants, tax credits for businesses, bonding authority and other benefits.

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