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United States Housing Authority What the Housing Act Can do for Your City

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09640.318 Author/Creator: United States Housing Authority Place Written: Washington, D.C. Type: Pamphlet Date: 1938 Pagination: 88 p. ; 23.4 x 14.9 cm. Order a Copy

One pamphlet entitled, "What the Housing Act Can do for Your City," dated 1938. Item concerns of the details of the United States Housing Act: created by Congress to address poor living conditions and unemployment; a plan to assist local public housing authorities and cities that would benefit from public housing.

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