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Why the Housing Program Failed
Mayer, Albert | April 11, 1934 issue

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The housing program is dead, and will stay dead until it is revived on an entirely different basis. Consider the statistics as an index of failure. The Housing Division of the Public Works Administration was organized in July 1933. Since that time it has actually granted a net amount of about $25,000,000 for some 13 projects, after rescinding for various specific reasons additional preliminary allocations. Even if the remainder of the whole available sum of $150,000,000 finally filters into construction, it will have dribbled out over so long a time that its significance will be lost.

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HOUSING; PUBLIC works; PUBLIC administration; HOUSING policy; CITY planning; STATISTICS
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