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