Records, 1933-1973.

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Records, 1933-1973.

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Authority minutes, committees' reports, chairman's files, correspondence, memoranda, reports, project files, surveys, studies, reports of various city departments and other housing agencies, legal records, financial documents and budgets, management policy statements, books on housing, architectural drawings and blueprints. Collection includes approximately 13,000 photographs of projects, project sites, and demolitions, 1933-1973.

350 linear ft.

New York State Historical Documents Inventory

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New York State Historical Documents Inventory

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New York City Housing Authority

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The first municipal housing authority in the United States. From the description of Records, 1933-1973. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155483749 The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) was created during the Depression. With funding promised by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Public Works Administration to for the construction of public housing, Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia secured legislation in 1934 to create a housing authority in New York. By 1935 First Houses had b...