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2. List of public housing developments in the United States

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   Otto Kretchmer Homes (Dayton Street) (partially demolished) Genesis Towers (vacant) Hill Manor (demolished) Oriental Village; Garden Spires; John W. Hyatt Court (partially demolished) Archbishop Walsh Homes (demolished) Bradley Court; Pennington Court; Pueblo City; Douglass-Harrison Homes (demolished) Felix Fuld Court (Little Bricks) (vacant ...

3. List of New York City Housing Authority properties - Wikipedia

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   Oldest public housing development out of all of the boroughs in the city. Fort Washington Avenue Rehab: Washington Heights: 1 7 226 September 30, 1984: Senior-Only Housing Frederick Douglass Addition: Upper West Side: 1 16 135 June 30, 1965: Frederick Douglass Houses: Upper West Side: 17 5, 9, 12, 17, 18 and 20 2,054 May 31, 1958: Frederick E ...

4. United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

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   The idea of a department of Urban Affairs was proposed in a 1957 report to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, led by New York governor Nelson A. Rockefeller. [3] The idea of a department of Housing and Urban Affairs was taken up by President John F. Kennedy, with Pennsylvania Senator and Kennedy ally Joseph S. Clark Jr. listing it as one of the top seven legislative priorities for the ...

5. Subsidized housing in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Photograph of New York City tenement lodgings by Jacob Riis for How the Other Half Lives, first published in 1890.. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, government involvement in housing for the poor was chiefly in the area of building code enforcement, requiring new buildings to meet certain standards for decent livability (e.g. proper ventilation), and forcing landlords to make some ...

6. Section 8 (housing) - Wikipedia

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   The main Section 8 program involves the voucher program. A voucher may be either "project-based"—where its use is limited to a specific apartment complex (public housing agencies (PHAs) may reserve up to 20% of its vouchers as such [11])—or "tenant-based", where the tenant is free to choose a unit in the private sector, is not limited to specific complexes, and may reside anywhere in the ...

7. United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

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   The department's mission is "to increase homeownership, support community development and increase access to affordable housing free from discrimination." [3] The secretary of housing and urban development is a Level I position in the Executive Schedule, [4] thus earning a salary of US$246,400, as of January 2024. [5]