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Housing

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show Created the Public Works Administration (PWA) and Federal Housing Administration (FHA)  
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show Established the goal: “A decent home for every family in a suitable environment.”  
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show Established comprehensive planning grants (Section 701) for communities.  
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show The Housing Act of 1934  
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This Housing Act laid the foundation for most of the Federal housing programs for the next 40 years and established the established U.S. Housing Authority.   show
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Housing Act of 1949   show
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show Housing Act of 1954  
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Housing Act of 1937   show
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show The Civil Rights Act of 1968  
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Housing & Community Development Act of 1974   show
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show Housing & Community Development Act of 1974  
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show Established to eliminate slums and blight, conserve and expand the nation’s housing stock, and improve the quality of life  
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Section 701 of the 1954 Housing Act   show
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show Most comprehensive extension of fed. housing/ urban devel. since 1947 Fed. rent supplements: difference between 25% of family income & rent 3% loans for low/mod-income families Subsidies for 240,000 additional low-rent public housing units  
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show Established that local citizen participation was positive/valuable  
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show The Homestead Act of 1862  
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Homer Hoyt's influential "sector theory" of urban structure   show
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Jacob Riis's powerful stimulus to housing and neighborhood reform.   show
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Southern Burlington County N.A.A.C.P. v. Mount Laurel Township (1983)   show
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Section 8 Housing   show
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show Provides funds for the redevelopment of severely distressed public housing, including physical improvements, management improvements, and social/community services and allows for the demolition/dispersed reconstruction of public housing.  
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show HOPE VI  
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show Provides formula grants to States and localities to fund a range of activities that build, buy, and/or rehabilitate affordable housing for rent or homeownership or provide direct rental assistance to low-income people. Often use non-profit partners.  
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show Created in 1974 to provide communities with resources to address a wide range of unique community development needs; it is one of the oldest of all federal block grant programs & is administered by HUD's Office of Community Planning and Development (CPD)  
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Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSE)   show
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Fannie Mae: Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA)   show
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The New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) Program   show
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show The country's first comprehensive housing reform law.  
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show Estab. 1970 - Federally-chartered corporation that purchases residential mortgages, securitizes them, and sells them to investors; provides lenders with funds for new homebuyers.  
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show Gov. owned corporation overseen by HUD, pools FHA-insured and VA-guaranteed loans to securities for private investment; guarantee backed by "full faith and credit" of US Gov't  
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show Encourges private-sector capital investment into the nation's urban and rural low-income areas to help finance community development projects, stimulate economic growth and create jobs.  
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show Created by the Tax Reform Act of 1986.  
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Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC)   show
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show 1855  
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show 1879  
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show This form of housing was built throughout New York City but often had poor lighting, lack of air, and little space.  
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show New tenement buildings to provide a narrow air shaft between adjacent structures, windows that open into the shaft, two toilets on each floor, and a one square yard window in each room. This represented the first major housing code in the U.S.  
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show The Tenement House Law of 1901 (NY State)  
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Consolidated Plan   show
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show Represented the first comprehensive housing act, had a goal of constructing 800,000 housing units and was also known as the Wagner-Ellender-Taft bill.  
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