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... that Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is owned by a government authority, which may be central or local?
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... that the National Housing Act of 1934, also called the Capehart Act, was part of the New Deal passed during the Great Depression in order to make housing and home mortgages more affordable?
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... that the Housing Act of 1937 sometimes called the Wagner-Steagall Act, provided for subsidies to be paid from the U.S. government to local public housing agencies (LHA's) to improve living conditions for low-income families?
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... that the House with Chimaeras derives its popular name from the ornate decorations depicting exotic animals and hunting scenes?
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... that the owners of the Belton House are buried in the village of Belton's parish church close to the house? Their tombs are collectively one of the most complete sets of family memorials in England, and are continuous generation to generation for almost 350 years.
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... that the Baden-Powell House a Scouting hostel and conference centre in South Kensington, London, which was built as a tribute to Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting?
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... even though the Housing Act of 1949 called for building more housing, some projects saw more housing units destroyed than built?
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... that Litchfield Towers is the largest and tallest dormitory at the University of Pittsburgh's main campus, at 22 stories in height and housing over 1,850 residents?
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... that construction of the Penn South housing cooperative in New York City was initially met with resistance because 7,500 residents would have been displaced?
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... that the Phipps Bridge housing estate has been described as "one of south London's most notorious crime vortexes"?
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... that Jewelers' Row (pictured) in Philadelphia was the first speculative housing development in the United States, featuring that country's first row houses?
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... that the now demolished Ida B. Wells Homes in Chicago were the location of both LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman's Peabody Award-winning radio documentary and Frederick Wiseman's Public Housing?
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... that residents and preservationists have fought to save the Julia C. Lathrop Homes from demolition by the Chicago Housing Authority?
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... that the now demolished Ida B. Wells Homes in Chicago were the location of both LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman's Peabody Award-winning radio documentary and Frederick Wiseman's Public Housing?
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... that the Sydney suburb of Daceyville was named after John Dacey, who in the early 1900s envisioned Australia's first public housing estate?
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