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This list covers, and is applicable to, all records accumulated by

the Public Housing Administration (both Headquarters Office and Field

installations) and its predecessor agencies on the Lanham Act War

Housing Program, the Veterans Reuse Housing Program, the Subsistence

Homesteads and Greentowns Programs and the Defense Housing Program

(Public Law 139). Effective December 31, 1963, the responsibility

for liquidation of these programs was transferred to the Community

Disposition Staff, Office of the Administrator, Housing and Home

Finance Agency, predecessor of the Department of Housing and Urban

Development.

Lanham Act War Housing Program

On October 14, 1940, Congress enacted the original Lanham Act, Public

Law 849, 76th Congress, to expedite the provision of housing in

connection with national defense. The Federal Works Administrator

was responsible for the War Housing Program provided for in the Act.

February 24, 1942, Executive Order 9070 transferred the

responsibilities from the Federal Works Administrator to the National

Housing Agency for administration by the Federal Public Housing

Authority under the direction and supervision of the National Housing

Administrator. The subsequent amendments and delegations provided

for the construction, maintenance, and disposition of the projects

and dwelling units according to certain conditions which are

documented in the permanent records of the Public Housing

Administration. The program finally produced 191,000 permanent

dwelling units and 437,000 temporary dwelling units at an overall

expenditure of one billion, seven hundred and four million, seven

hundred thousand dollars (\$1,704,700,000).

Veterans Reuse Housing Program

Title V of the Lanham Act provided housing for distressed families of

servicemen and for veterans with families. The original provisions

of this Title were added to the Lanham Act by Public Law 87, 79th

Congress, approved June 23, 1945, and was known as the Veterans Reuse

Housing Program. It utilized all of the power specified in Titles I

and III of the Act but provided for new construction only where the

need could not be met by moving existing housing. Construction was

of a temporary character subject to the removal provisions contained

in Title III of the Act.

Subsistence Homestead and Greentowns Programs

Public Law 67, 73rd Congress as amended, approved June 16, 1933,

established a Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works.

Section 208 of this Act provided for making loans for subsistence

homesteads and the construction of the Greentown projects to aid in

the redistribution of the overbalance of population in industrial

centers. By Executive Order 7041, dated May 15,

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1935, the administration of these programs was transferred to the

Resettlement Administration in the Department of Agriculture.

These programs were transferred to the National Housing Agency by

Executive Order 9070, dated February 24, 1942, which provided that

the projects transferred were to be administered by the Federal

Public Housing Commissioner acting under the direction and

supervision of the National Housing Administrator.

Three Greentown projects with 2267 dwellings and 14 Subsistence

Homestead projects with 1947 dwellings were transferred to NHA. In

addition, 17 Subsistence projects with 1188 units were sold to the

occupants of the dwellings prior to the transfer of these programs.

The responsibility for the collection of payments on these properties

was included in the transfer to NHA.

Defense Housing Program

Public Law 139, 82nd Congress, approved September 1, 1951, authorized

the Housing and Home Finance Administrator to provide defense housing

needed in connection with the national defense activities incident to

the Korean conflict. The Administrator delegated to the Public

Housing Commissioner certain powers and functions relative to

housing, utilities, construction schedules and controlled materials.

The majority of the defense housing built was on military posts or

bases for military personnel. It consisted of trailers or mobile or

portable houses. By the end of 1952, 29 projects with 5,577 dwelling

units were under active management.

This list includes all of the remaining records accumulated on the

above programs, wherever located. Most of the records are currently

in the custody of the Federal Record Centers. Briefly, they have

been grouped into the following types to facilitate their

disposition:

1\. Regulatory, policy, and procedural matter

2\. Real property records

3\. Development, Management, and (related) Administrative

records

Item

No. Description of Records Disposition

1\. Policy and procedures material, Disposition not

including manuals, directives and authorized by this

orders as documented in the records schedule. Transfer to

of the Administrative Planning National Archieves for

Branch, Public Housing permanent retention.

Administration. (NARA Job NN-166-75,

item 1)

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Item

No. Description of Records Disposition

2\. The Public Housing Administration Disposition not

Legal Division records consisting authorized by this

of the Land Docket files, including schedule. (NARA Job

appraisals, leased land documents, NN-166-75, item 2)

land rental and tax reimbursement

records; the Disposition Docket

files (all Liquidating programs),

and the selected microfilm of the

project plans on Lanham Act War

Housing projects.

3\. All other records on the Development,

Management, and Administrative phases

of the programs.

a\. Construction files, Plans and Destroy. (NARA Job

Drawings, Specifications, NN-166-75, item 3(a))

Administrative Contracts, and

General Correspondence. Also,

all files on Utilities, Insurance,

Personal Property, Occupancy,

Engineering, Fiscal, Mortgage

Servicing, Labor Relations,

Field Accounting, Housing

Managers files, Project Engineers

files, Statistical records and

Administrative files accumulated

during the programs. (Exclusive

of records covered in item 3b.)

b\. The Technical Branch records Disposition not

providing the standards of authorized by this

construction (now in Region 3 schedule. (NARA Job

Federal Records Center on NN-166-75, item 3(b))

Accession 59-A-2548) and the

Subsistence Homesteads and

Greentowns records to be

selected for permanent retention

by the National Archives.

1933-1963

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