On September 1, 1937 the first public housing law was signed into law, so this weekend we will hit the 75th anniversary of public housing in the US.
I will be doing a presentation at the Cascade Chapter NAHRO conference in Vancouver on Monday September 10 (event page HERE) that will include a presentation with links to a wide variety of on line public housing background materials, including Oregon materials, so for now I will stick to a personal note.
My Family Public Housing History Began in 1944.
I have boxes of old stuff that I haven't had the heart to throw away. I recently began the slow process of finally throwing some of this stuff away and I ran across an old rent receipt (pasted below) that my mother had for NorWayne, a large public housing project built near Detroit as part of the war effort (picture of a NorWayne unit also included). Looks like rent was $35 a month and utilities were less than $5. Rent was for December 1944, just 9 months after my brother was born, and a year before my sister and 3 years before I was born.
Later, after my parents divorced, we moved into another large public housing project in Detroit when I was 5 years old and we lived there until I started high school.
Later, after my parents divorced, we moved into another large public housing project in Detroit when I was 5 years old and we lived there until I started high school.
Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.
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