Housing

Question 1

NYC Tenement House Act of 1867

Answer 1

Required windows in all rooms, though not to outside

Question 2

NYC Tenement House Act of 1879

Answer 2

Required windows to outside, which led to creation of “dumbbell tenements” with air shafts. “Old Law Tenements”

Question 3

NYC Tenement House Law of 1901

Answer 3

Outlawed dumbbell tenements. Required wide light and air area, toilets, running water. “New Law Tenements”

Question 4

Public Works Administration

Answer 4

1934 - Provided first federal support for public housing, paid 85% of cost of public housing projects

Question 5

National Housing Act of 1934

Answer 5

Established FHA to insure home mortgages; stimulated single-family home ownership

Question 6

Resettlement Administration

Answer 6

Used New Deal funds to develop “Greenbelt” new towns

Question 7

Housing Act of 1937 / Wagner-Steagall Act

Answer 7

Slum clearance linked to public housing; project-based rental assistance; instituted Neighborhood Composition Rule that promoted segregation. Catherine Wuster Bauer involved. Established US Housing Authority (disbanded 1947)

Question 8

Servicemen’s Readjustment Act

Answer 8

1944 - Guaranteed home loans to veterans

Question 9

National Housing Act of 1949

Answer 9

First comprehensive housing legislation; called for 800,000 new housing units and provided federal financing of slum clearance

Question 10

Housing Act of 1954

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Slum prevention and urban renewal; Section 701 comprehensive planning funds for cities < 25,000, later expanded

Question 11

Housing Act of 1959

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Made matching funds available for comprehensive planning at metropolitan, regional, state and interstate levels

Question 12

Housing Act of 1961

Answer 12

Interest subsidies to nonprofit orgs, limited-dividend corporation, cooperatives, and pubic agencies for construction of public housing projects

Question 13

HUD Act of 1965

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Formed HUD; established rent subsidies for poor, reduced interest-rate home loans, and subsidies for public housing projects

Question 14

Fair Housing Act (1968)

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Part of Civil Rights Act

Question 15

Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act

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1966 – Launched model cities program and provided financial incentives for coordinated metropolitan area planning

Question 16

HUD Act of 1968

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Provided for construction of 6 million subsidized housing units and monthly subsidies for private homes of low-income families

Question 17

National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Act of 1974

Answer 17

Imposed first federal regulation; updated in 2000

Question 18

CDBG program

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1974 - Formula funding program

Question 19

Urban Development Action Grant Program (1977)

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Amended 1974 Housing and Community Development act; set up public-private redevelopment partnerships and cut funding for Section 701

Question 20

Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act of 1990

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Created HOME program for housing rehabilitation

Question 21

Hope VI

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Provided funds for redevelopment of severely distressed public housing, including development of new neighborhoods using New Urbanist neighborhoods. Introduced Choice Neighborhoods and later Promise Zones

Question 22

Current public housing statistics

Answer 22

1.2 million HH in units, managed by 3,300 housing authorities