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Housing Flashcards

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Civil Rights Act (1866)

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Equal rights for all to be citizens, enter contracts, own property; discrimination not allowed; Race

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Tenement House (1867)

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First building restrictions in New York; defined tenement and set regulations

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Tenement House (1879)

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Old Law’ Tenement; Required air, window per room; 2 toilets per floor; created ‘dumbell’

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Tenement House Law (1901)

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New Law’ Tenement; required permits, 70% lot coverage, fresh air, toilet per unit; fire safety measures; Tenement Housing Commission

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U.S. Housing Corporation and Emergency Fleet Corporation established (1918)

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Influenced later endeavors in public housing. Operated at major shipping centers to provide housing for World War I workers.

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National Recovery Act (1933)

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Federal ability to clear slums and construct low-income housing

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Established Home Owners Loan Corporation (1933)

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Established to save homeowners facing loss through foreclosure.

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National Housing Act (Capehart) ‘Better Housing Program’ (1934)

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Established FHA [regulate interest/terms]; Federal Mortgage Insurance [longer mort. Smaller down]; minimum design standards; led to discrimination ‘redlining’; created FSLIC

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National Housing Act (Wagner-Steagall) (1937)

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Creates US Housing Authority offers $500m in loans and subsidies to local housing agencies; slum clearance

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Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (1944)

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(GI Bill) Mortgage loan guarantee for vets and higher education funds for vets

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Housing and Home Financing Agency (1947)

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Ceated to coordinate federal government’s various housing programs (predecessor of HUD)

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National Housing Act (Wagner-Ellender-Taft) (1949)

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Slum clearance - ‘Urban Renewal’; emphasize new construction; replaced low density town houses with superblocks - high-rise housing projects ‘warehouses for the poor’

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National Housing Act (1954)

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Expands Urban Renewal Program; slum prevention - preserve downtown and focus on rehabilitation rather than clearance; Sec. 701 Comp Plan for <25k; Comp Plan for 50+k; Workable Program for Community Imrovement - annual recertification of Comp Plans to be eligible for federal funds

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Housing (1959)

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Sec 202 - loans to non-profits for low income elderly housing

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Housing (1961)

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Sec 221(d)(3) - interest subsidies for public housing projects for LMI

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Civil Rights Act (1964)

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No discrimination

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Creation of HUD (1965)

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Robert Weaver - first Secretary

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Model Cities Program (1966)

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quasi-political - federal funded to assess problems and solutions

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Civil Rights Act (1968)

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Title II to VII Indian Civil Rights; (Federal Enforcement of CRA 1866)

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Fair Housing Act (Title VIII of CRA) (1968)

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Prohibited discrimination concerning sale, rental and financing housing; Color, Religion, Sex, National Origin

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Housing and Urban Development (1968)

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6m subsidized units to be built over 10 years; Sec 235 - program to spur low-income home ownership with FHA insurance; Sec 236 - low interest mort. assistance mulit-family rental & coop housing (move away from public affordable housing)

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Intergovernmental Cooperation Act (1968)

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A-95 Circular required clearing house dissemination and regional review

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Demolition of St. Louis’s notorious Pruitt-Igoe Project (1972)

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Symbolizes a nationwide move away from massive, isolating, high-rise structures to a more humane form of public housing architecture: low-rise, less isolated, dispersed.

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National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety (1974)

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HUD Code required steel chassis and wheels

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Housing & Community Development (1974)

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Consolidated HUD funding into CDBG Program, entitlement formula, benefit LMI, 5-Year Consilidated Plans and Consolidated Annual Performand and Evaluation Report (CAPER); Established Section 8 Housing (rental assistance)

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Home Mortgage Disclosure (1975)

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Housting & Communtity Development (1977)

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Ended 701; created Urban Development Action Grant (UDAG) funds to leverage prvide investment in distressed cities; Requires banks to report lending practices in neighborhoods

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Housing & Urban-Rural Recovery (1983)

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Section 8 Voucher program rather than certificates

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Tax Reform (1986)

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Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) ‘Section 42 Housing’, to finance affordable rental housing units for low-income, attracts equity capital into affordable housing with 9% or 4% credits, tax credits for 10 years

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McKinney Homeless Assistance (1987)

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Emergency aid for homeless; money for Section 8 for Single-room occupancy (SRO) for homeless; Housing assitance plans must include components for services to homeless; Emergency Shelter Grants Program; Supportive Housing Demonstration Program

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Fair Housing Act (1988)

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Expanded law to include people with handicap and family status in the Fair Housing Act

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Americans with Disabilities (1990)

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amended in 2008 for disabled workers

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National Affordable Housing (Cranston-Gonzalez) (1990)

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HOME Investment Partnership - housing block grants for housing repair up to city code

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HOPE VI Program (1993)

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Urban Revitalization Demonstration Program (replace high-rise low income with low-rise middle-income)

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Housing & Economic Recovery (2008)

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Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) - stabilized communities suffering foreclosures/abandonment

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American Recovery & Reinvestment (2009)

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NSP2 - additional funding plus funding for technical assistance to support NSP

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Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection (2010)

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NSP3 - additional funding

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