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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...