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AICP: Functional Area of Practice

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Housing history: identify years of the Public Health Movement   late 1800s (1876 - 1920)  
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First Tenement build in NYC   1855  
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Dumbbell tenement - where and why built   NYC, 1879 law required every inhabitable room have a window opening to plain air (air shaft at narrow waist in middle of building)  
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Tenement House Act (year and significance)   1867; NYC. First "housing code" of the US. Required air shaft between adjacent structures, windows that open to the air shaft, one square yard window in each room. And 2 toilets per floor.  
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Tenement House Law   1901. NYC. Outlawed Dumbbell tenements. Required wide light and air areas between buildings and toilets and running water in each unit.  
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Neighborhood Unit Concept - year and who defined   1920 - Clarence Perry. Part of NY Reg'l Plan. Defined neighborhood as 5-min walking radius. Ca. 160 acres; school in center.  
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Public Works Administration   1934. First federally supported public housing program; depression era. Provided 85% cost of public housing projects.  
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National Housing Act   1934 passed by Congress. Established Federal Housing Administration; purpose to insure home mortgages.  
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Resettlement Administration - year and outcome   1935 - formed to experiment with population resettlement and land reform. Used New Deal funds to develop new towns (Greendale WI; Greenhills, OH, Greenbelt, MD) + 99 communities planned (based on Garden City concept)  
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U.S. - or - National - or The Housing Act of . . .   first in 1934 w/purpose of insuring home mortgages. Followed by 1937 - $500 M for development of low-cost housing; tied slum clearance to public housing [Catherine B Wurster, advocate]. 1949 - 800,000 new units emphasizing slum clearance (More)  
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other Housing Acts:   1954 urban renewal and slum prevention "701 funds". 1959: fed matching funds for planning at metro, regional, state levels. 1961: subsidies to non-profits and others for public housing construction for low- and moderate-income families  
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Housing and Urban Development 1965   Rent subsidies for the poor; reduces interest rate home loans; subsidies for public housing projects.  
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HUD 1968   subsidies for 6M housing units and subsidies for private houses for low-income families  
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Pruitt-Igoe Project (St. Louis)   public housing project demolished - shift away from high-rise concentrated public housing.  
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Community Development Block Grant (CDBG)   1974, created under Housing and Community Development Act. Community use of fed funds to address blight. Also created SECTION 8  
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Section 8 program   Created with CDBG in 1974. Provides rent subsidies for low-income housing.  
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National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Act   1974. Regulated manufactured housing units; prohibited municipalities from regulating through local building codes (effective 1976)  
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HOME was created thru what act?   National Affordable Housing Act of 1990 funds for housing rehabilitation  
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HOPE VI was created by?   Congress passed HOPE VI grant program in 1992. Provided funds to redevelop severely distressed public housing. Resulted in a de-concentration of public housing.  
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Consolidation Plan   Requirement for HUD funding began in 1995. Replaces app for: CDBG; HOME; Emergency Shelter Grant; HOPWA (persons w/AIDS). Collaborative process to integrate economic, physical, human devl'p for communities to thrive  
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Book published that triggered housing and neighborhood reform   1890: How the Other Half Lives (by Jacob Riis)  
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