When Was the First Housing Law Created

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When Was the First Housing Law Created?

• 1868
• 1937
• 1901
• 1965

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Policy Development - 1901

• Federal involvement in housing is not necessary.
  Housing problems need to be solved locally and
  charitably.

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When Was the First Federal Appropriation for
Housing?

• 1810
• 1937
• 1917
• 1830

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Policy Development - 1917

• Federal involvement in housing is necessary as
  a means to promote industrial productivity,
  social harmony and easy access to shipyards.

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Which US President was the first to have a
serious interest in housing?

• Eisenhower
• Kennedy
• Lincoln
• Hoover

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Policy Development 1920s

• Government sponsorship of the concept of
  private ownership of housing produces both a
  desired and virtuous family model and a way to
  manage the classes.

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Policy Development - 1934

• Government involvement in housing to fuel the
  economy and to create stability and affordability
  in the mortgage markets.

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What Is The First Major Piece of Housing
Legislation?
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Federal involvement in housing provides
decent, safe and sanitary housing.
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• Which law introduced urban renewal as policy
  and codified the famous decent home for every
  American - - yet had a central non-housing
  goal?
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Policy Development - 1949

• Affordable housing can be a lever towards the
  greater goal of urban redevelopment.

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Housing authorities began housing the poorest of
the poor as a result of

• The Depression

• The Brooke Amendment of 1966

• The US Housing Act of 1937

• The Welfare Act of 1959

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Policy Development - 1967Federal
involvement in housing serves a social purpose.
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Policy Development - 1973

• President Nixon declares a moratorium on all
  housing activity involving federal subsidy,
  saying -
• this high-cost no-result boondoggling by the
  federal government must end.

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Policy Development 1974

• Shift to the private sector introduction of
  mortgage and rental subsidies
• Section 8
• 221(d)(3)
• Section 23

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Policy Development 1980s

• Massive dismantling of HUDs programs
• Passage of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit
  1985

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Policy Development 1990s

• Shift to a public-private partnership model for
  all housing and community development solutions.
• Shift of responsibility from federal to state
• Demolition of public housing HOPE VI
• Introduction of mixed income concepts

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• So, where do we go from here?

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• Consistent, productive involvement of the private
  sector
• Understand that the drivers have not been about
  goodness
• Re-examine our full housing policy and its
  inequities

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• Embrace public ownership stewardship of assets
• Targeting of the greatest need with mid-market
  eligibility
• Excellent project design that integrates, and
  improves, neighborhoods and family opportunity

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