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Harold L. Ickes Homes was a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project on the Near South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States.It was bordered between Cermak Road to the north, 24th Place to the south, State Street to the east, and Federal Street to the west, making it part of the State Street Corridor that included other CHA properties: Robert Taylor Homes, Dearborn Homes ...
Built in 1949, Ed Tucker Memorial Homes (aka “Tucker Homes”) was a 200-unit co-operative housing project designed as a memorial to veterans of Atlanta who gave their lives in World War 2. A combined effort between the FHA and the non-profit Veteran's Corporation, it was named for a young B-24 navigator from College Park, Georgia who died in ...
Cabrini–Green (William Green Homes Demolition completed May 2011; Frances Cabrini rowhouses remain) Dearborn Homes (Renovated 2009) Harold Ickes Homes (Demolition completed 2011) Harrison Courts (Renovated 2009) Henry Horner Homes (Demolition completed 2008) Ida B. Wells Homes (Demolition completed August 2011)
Public housing was a new concept in the United States, tested for the first time during the New Deal. With this in mind the PWA constructed a total of 52 housing communities for a total of 29,000 units, which was less than what many supporters of public housing had hoped for. The first public housing community built by PWA was the whites-only ...
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 ...
Due to the lobbying of Charles Palmer, an Atlantan real estate developer, Atlanta had been the site of the first public housing project in the country in 1936, Techwood Homes. Early public housing projects such as Techwood and its sister project, University Homes, were built for working-class families on the sites of former slums.
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Harold Ickes Homes: Bronzeville (South Side) 1953–55: Named for Illinois politician Harold L. Ickes; 11 9-story high-rise buildings, totaling 738 units; demolished. Harrison Courts: East Garfield Park (West Side) 1958: Named after its street location; consists of 4 7-story buildings; renovated. Ogden Courts: North Lawndale (West Side) 1953