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What year was the first model tenement built in NYC   1855  
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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  
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Jacob Riis book. What is it called and when did he write it?   How the other half lives 1890  
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1901 Tenement House Law what did it do   outlawed dumbbell tenaments, required wide light, air, toilets and running water  
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PublicWorks Administration (PWA) when was it created, what did it do?   Helped build housing – first federally supported public housing program 1934  
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1934 National Housing Act   – created the Federal Housing Administration – purpose to insure home mortgages  
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Resettlement Administration, what year, what did it do?   1935 – uses New Deal Funds to build new town – Greenbelt towns – Rexford Tugwell  
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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  
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Servicemans Readjustment Act, what year   – 1944 - GI bill guaranteed home loans to vets, led to rapid development of suburbs  
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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.  
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1954 – Housing Act   – provided $ for cities under 25,000 – focused on urban renewal  
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1959 – Housing Act   – federal matching funds for comp planning at all levels (local, regional, state, intersate)  
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1961 – Housing Act   - $ to organizations building housing projects for others to rent  
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When was HUD formed and what act formed it?   1965 – HUD formed through Housing and Urban Development ACT  
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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.  
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1968 – Housing and Urban Development Act   – 6 million subsidized housing units  
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The Civil Rights Act/Fair Housing Act what year, why is it significant   1968 – racial discrimination in the sale or rental of housing illegal  
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1970 – Miami Valley Regional Planning Commision   – Ohio, housing plan that called for low and moderate income housing allocated on a fair share basis  
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1972 – Pruitt-Igoe Project   demolished in Saint Louis – shift away from high rise public housing. The death of “modern” architecture  
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1974 Housing and Community Development Act   creates Community Devleopment block Grant Program (CDBG) – communities use funds to improve blighted area, created section 8  
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1974 – National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Act   – regulates manufactured homes, and prohibits local municipalities from doing so.  
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1977 – Urban Development Action Grant Program (UDAG)   – public private partnerships for redevelopment of urban areas.  
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1990 – National Affordable housing act   creates the HOME program – funds for housing rehab  
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Hope VI, what year, what is it?   1992 – redevelopment of distressed public housing (Chicago taylor homes) – Mixed income housing used to revitalize gvt.  
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Consolidated plan   – community identifies housing, homeless, and community development needs. must be completed by a community to receive federal funds from housing  
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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.  
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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  
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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.  
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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.  
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FHFA   Federal Housing and Finance Agency  
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Conservatorship -   subjected to the legal control of an external entity or organization. Fannie mae and Fred Mac are in conservatorship of FHFA  
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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.  
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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.  
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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.  
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ROSS   Resident opportunities for self sufficiency – links public housing residents with public services – seniors and people with disabilities.  
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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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