Wagner-Steagall+Housing+Act+9

=Wagner-Steagall Housing Act 1937 = =By Caity McHale and Caroline Kelly =


 * Created the United States Housing Authority within the United States Department of the Interior
 * The sponsoring legislators were Representative Henry B. Steagall Democrat of Alabama, and Senator Robert F. Wagner, Democrat of New York.

[[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Robert_F_Wagner.jpg/220px-Robert_F_Wagner.jpg width="220" height="220" align="right" caption="Robert F. Wagner"]]
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Purpose of the Act

 * To ensure the quality of housing increased, but the quantity did not.
 * Federal government would provide funding, but the ownership and operation would be the responsibility of the local public housing authority.
 * Intended to provide for poor, but would not compete with the private housing market.

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Problems with the Act

 * Housing options included choice of location, which allowed racial segregation to occur.
 * Act specified a incredibly low maximum income requiremnt for public housing residents.[[image:http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/1/5/1325787686027/Slums-Must-Go-May-Day-Par-003.jpg width="482" height="279" align="right" caption="Although some were happy for a place to live, slums had a high crime and disease rate."]]
 * Caused high concentrations of poverty within each public housing project.