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The Housing Act of 1937 (Pub. L. 75–412, 50 Stat. 888, enacted September 1, 1937), formally the "United States Housing Act of 1937" and sometimes called the Wagner–Steagall Act, provided for subsidies to be paid from the United States federal government to local public housing agencies (LHAs) to improve living conditions for low-income families.
Father Panik Village was the first housing project located in Bridgeport, and the first in Connecticut.Ground was broken in 1939, and it opened as Yellow Mill Village.By 1936, Father Stephen Panik, a Slovakian priest, had enlisted the support of Mayor Jasper McLevy and Gov. Wilbur L. Cross to assist with finances through the Federal Housing Authority.
The local housing authority built some housing initially in the Lordship section of Stratford and in the Grasmere section of Fairfield, but could not build housing fast enough to meet the needs of the war effort. [5] The federal government stepped in to help Bridgeport and other cities across the country.
A sliding screen door sits detached from a door at Miami Hills Apartments in this July 2020 file photo. A conspiracy to commit fraud against the Housing Authority of South Bend used money intended ...
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 ...
All eyes are on the first Social Security payments of 2023, in which the record-breaking cost of living adjustment (COLA) will start to be reflected in the checks of 66 million beneficiaries....
It may decrease their Social Security payments by up to half the value of their pension. For example, Michelle Cosgrove's benefits were cut in half, reduced from $866 a month.
This followed the 1919 'Addison' Act and the provision of central state subsidies; some local authority or municipal housing was provided before 1914. [118] Housing was a major policy area under Wilson's Labour government, 1964 to 1970, with an accelerated pace of new building, as there was still a great deal of unfit housing needing ...