Records from the Great Depression
Cath Madden Trindle
USHA-United States Housing Authority
1937 – in various forms to present NARA RG 207
Office for Emergency
Management. Office of War Information. Domestic Operations Branch. Bureau of
Special Services. (03/09/1943 – 09/15/1945)
The USHA was created by the Housing / Wagner-Steagall Act of
1937 (Pub.L. 75–412, 50 Stat. 888, enacted September 1, 1937). It has been
reorganized and regrouped many times over the past seventy plus years.
Today the Department of Housing and Urban Development carries on it’s functions.
USHA provided
subsidies from the U.S. government to local public housing agencies to improve
living conditions for low-income families.
Living quarters for
over 600,000 low income (often homeless) individuals were started in multiple
localities. The programs created helped establish the direction of federal
housing policy for the next 10 years, leading to the creation of the urban
renewal program.
Look for records of
projects at the local, regional, state and national level.
§ Textual Records (in San Francisco): Prefabricated Housing Loan Program records
(files 356-378 only), 1953-54.
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