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Model Cities logo. The Model Cities Program was an element of U.S. President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty.The concept was presented by labor leader Walter Reuther to President Johnson in an off-the-record White House meeting on May 20, 1965. [1]
The Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, Pub. L. 90–448, 82 Stat. 476, enacted August 1, 1968, was passed during the Lyndon B. Johnson Administration.The act came on the heels of major riots across cities throughout the U.S. in 1967, the assassination of Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968, and the publication of the report of the Kerner Commission, which ...
Non-profit housing developers build affordable housing for individuals under-served by the private market. The non-profit housing sector is composed of community development corporations (CDC) and national and regional non-profit housing organizations whose mission is to provide for the needy, the elderly, working households, and others that the private housing market does not adequately serve.
Plans unveiled Tuesday show Baltimore County could have nearly 290 new housing units on the 18-acre site of the former Hunt Valley Inn. After the Baltimore County Council overturned County ...
The first phase of redevelopment, at a cost of about $40 million, will take the form of a brand new four-story building with a resource center on the first floor and three stories of housing on ...
At this time, racial deed restrictions on housing were legally removed and banned, which was an important step for Desegregation in the United States. However, redlining still existed to present the unequal real estate transaction for many ethnic minorities. Even though segregation was explicitly illegal, discrimination under urban planning ...
Two International Group, the Portsmouth commercial real estate company that owns the 283 U.S. Route 1 property, proposed the redevelopment project in April. Elements of the plan have changed, as ...
The Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 (Pub. L. 89–117, 79 Stat. 451) is a major revision to federal housing policy in the United States which instituted several major expansions in federal housing programs. The United States Congress passed and President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the legislation on August 10, 1965. [1]