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Public Housing for Private Purchase: A limited number of units were made available for public purchase by private citizens. In the late 1990s, due to an oversupply of housing units in the private market, the government decided to halt large-scale public housing projects, except for the continued redevelopment of military-dependent villages.
New Orleans (See Housing Authority of New Orleans) St. Thomas Projects; Desire Projects; Florida Projects; Magnolia Projects; Melpomene Projects; Calliope Projects; Iberville Projects; St. Bernard Projects; Fischer Projects; Lafitte Projects; DeGaulle Manor; Hammond, Louisiana. Terrace Of Hammond (212 Neighborhood) Cypress Cove (Grace Quaters ...
Robert Taylor Homes was a public housing project in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois from 1962 to 2007. The second largest housing project in the United States, it consisted of 28 virtually identical high-rises, set out in a linear plan for two miles (3 km), with the high-rises regularly configured in a horseshoe shape of three in each block.
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 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 slum ...
The East Lake Meadows public housing project was a 654 unit community built in 1971 and was one of the most infamous of all of Atlanta's public housing. [7] At the time the nation's largest turnkey project, [8] East Lake Meadows was immediately plagued by maintenance problems due to poor construction. [7]
These funds fueled the construction of large-scale modernist developments like Chicago’s Robert Taylor Homes, which was the largest public housing project in the U.S. with over 4,000 units in 28 ...
Cabrini–Green Homes are a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project on the Near North Side of Chicago, Illinois.The Frances Cabrini Rowhouses and Extensions were south of Division Street, bordered by Larrabee Street to the west, Orleans Street to the east and Chicago Avenue to the south, with the William Green Homes to the northwest.
Whether referred to as Butler Place, The Butlers, Butler Housing, or the projects, Butler Place was a tight community for thousands of residents over nearly 80 years, until it closed in December 2020.