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The Public Works Administration (PWA), part of the New Deal of 1933, was a large-scale public works construction agency in the United States headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. It was created by the National Industrial Recovery Act in June 1933 in response to the Great Depression.
Roosevelt angered Johnson by having him administer only the NRA, while the Public Works Administration (PWA) went to Harold L. Ickes. [68] [69] NRA and PWA reported to different cabinet agencies, making coordination difficult, and PWA money flowed so slowly into the economy [70] [69] that NRA proved to be the more important agency by far.
The Living New Deal is a research project and online public archive documenting the scope and impact of the New Deal on American lives and the national landscape. [1] The project focuses on public works programs, which put millions of unemployed to work, saved families from destitution, and renovated the infrastructure of the United States.
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 ...
Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration: No PWA: 1933: Public Works Administration: No RA: 1935: Resettlement Administration: No REA: 1935: Rural Electrification Administration: Yes (now Rural Utilities Service) SEC: 1934: Securities and Exchange Commission: Yes SES: 1933: Soil Erosion Service: No SSB (now SSA) 1935: Social Security Board ...
From 1933 to 1937, the Public Works Administration (PWA) under Harold Ickes razed 10,000 slum units and built 22,000 new units, with the primary goal of providing construction jobs. Ickes was a strong friend of African Americans and reserved half the units for them.
The short-lived Public Works of Art Project was a prototype for later federal art programs, including the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Subsequent visual art programs administered by the Treasury Department were the Section of Painting and Sculpture and the Treasury Relief Art Project , both of which employed ...
The Williamsburg Houses were built in 1936–1938 under the auspices of the Housing Division of the Public Works Administration (PWA). [17] The project was originally segregated and allowed only white residents. [18] It was one of the first and, at the time, the most expensive New York City housing project, costing $12.5 million.