Housing Act of 1937 - ✔️✔️Tied slum clearance to public housing. Povided for subsidies
to be paid from the U.S. government to local public housing agencies (LHA's) to
improve living conditions for low-income families. (Also known as the Wagner-Steagall
Act).
Housing Act of 1949 - ✔️✔️Created the Urban Redevelopment Agency and gave it the
authority to subsidize three fourths of the cost of local slum clearance and urban
renewal.
-Provided federal financing for slum clearance programs associated with urban renewal
projects in American cities (Title I),
-Increased authorization for the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgage
insurance (Title II),
-Extending federal money to build more than 800,000 public housing units (Title III)
-Fund research into housing and housing techniques
-Permitting the FHA to provide financing for rural homeowners.
Housing Act of 1954 - ✔️✔️Modified urban redevelopment and renewal by requiring
communities engaged in such activities to adopt code enforcement, relocation, and
other measures that would prevent the further spread of urban blight.
Popularized the phrase "urban renewal"; made these projects more enticing to
developers, by among other things, providing FHA-backed mortgages.
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