The Mutual Housing Experiment: New Deal Communities for the Urban Middle Class
(Part of the Urban Life, Landscape, and Policy Series Series and Urban Life, Landscape, and Policy Series)
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In 1940, the U.S. Federal Works Agency created an experimental housing program for industrial workers. Eight model communities were leased and later sold to the residents, who formed a non-profit corporation called a mutual housing association. Further development of housing under the mutual housing plan was stymied by controversies around radical politics and race, and questions over whether the federal government should be involved in housing policy...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:143991205X
ISBN13:9781439912058
Release Date:June 2015
Publisher:Temple University Press
Length:294 Pages
Weight:1.18 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"
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