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[[File:Mare-Island-Vallejo-USHC-housing-1919.jpg|thumb|right|600px|USHC worker housing at Mare Island, Vallejo, California. 1915 plan]]

 

 

Ben-Joseph, Eran. "[http://web.mit.edu/ebj/www/ww1/ww1a.html Workers' Paradise: The Forgotten Communities of World War I]."&nbsp; Online research project, MIT School of Architecture+ Planning.&nbsp;<br/> [http://web.mit.edu/ebj/www/ww1/ww1a.html http://web.mit.edu/ebj/www/ww1/ww1a.html].

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The&nbsp;[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee,_Wisconsin City of Milwaukee], under socialist mayor&nbsp;[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Hoan Daniel Hoan], implemented the country's first public housing project, known as&nbsp;[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_Homes_Historic_District_(Milwaukee,_Wisconsin) Garden Homes], in 1923. This experiment with a municipally-sponsored housing cooperative saw initial success, but was plagued by development and land acquisition problems, and the board overseeing the project dissolved the Gardens Home Corporation just two years after construction on the homes was completed.

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First Houses take their name from their distinction of being the first public housing units constructed in the&nbsp;[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States United States],&nbsp;opening for the first tenants on December 3, 1935.&nbsp;[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_architecture Victorian]-era&nbsp;[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenement tenements]&nbsp;existed on the site before they were cleared to build the project, which was also the very first project undertaken by the city's new&nbsp;[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Housing_Authority Housing Authority]. The units opened in December 1935.

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"Permanent, federally funded housing came into being in the United States as a part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Title II, Section 202 of the&nbsp;[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Industrial_Recovery_Act National Industrial Recovery Act], passed June 16, 1933, directed the Public Works Administration (PWA) to develop a program for the "construction, reconstruction, alteration, or repair under public regulation or control of low-cost housing and&nbsp;[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slum_clearance slum clearance]&nbsp;projects...". Led by the Housing Division of the PWA and headed by architect&nbsp;[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_D._Kohn Robert Kohn], the initial, Limited-Dividend Program aimed to provide low-interest loans to public or private groups to fund the construction of low-income housing."

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*Bauer, Catherine. ''Modern Housing''. 1934.&nbsp;<br/> [http://bit.ly/Bauer_Modern-Housing1 [1]] - [60MB PDF, assembled from page scans available at Internet Archive].&nbsp;<br/> A landmark work focusing on European social housing post-WWI, by one of the most influential housing reformers of the 20th Century.&nbsp;<br/> &nbsp;