The Mutual Housing Experiment: New Deal Communities for the Urban Middle Class

by Kristin M Szylvian and Kristin M. Szylvian

Book Overview

In 1940, the U.S. Federal Works Agency created an experimental housing program for industrial workers. Eight model communities were leased and later sold to the residents, who formed a non-profit corporation called a mutual housing association. Further development of housing under the mutual housing plan was stymied by controversies around radical politics and race, and questions over whether the federal government should be involved in housing policy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 143991205X
• ISBN13: 9781439912058
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"