limited income population that the private real estate sector has never tried to serve. Organizational history The Housing Division of the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works was established pursuant to the National Industrial Recovery Act, June 16, 1933. It assumed, from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, administration of the limited dividend program under the Emergency Relief and Construction Act, July 21, 1932. It also administered a program of direct federal grants and loans to local housing authorities. The United States Housing Authority (USHA) was established in the Department of the Interior by the Housing Act of 1937, September 1, 1937, assuming responsibilities of the Housing Division in 1939. It was transferred to the Federal Works Agency by Reorganization Plan No. I of 1939, effective July 1, 1939. The USHA was renamed the Federal Public Housing Authority (FPHA) and transferred to the National Housing Agency by (using authority granted under the First War Powers Act), February 24, 1942, also consolidating functions relating to public housing formerly vested in the Public Buildings Administration, Division of Defense Housing, and Mutual Ownership Defense Housing Division, FWA; the War and Navy Departments; and the Farm Security Administration. The FPHA was replaced by the Public Housing Administration (PHA) within the Housing and Home Finance Agency pursuant to Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1947, effective July 27, 1947. The PHA was abolished and superseded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development by the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act (), September 9, 1965. References Aaron, Henry. Shelter and Subsidies: Who Benefits from Federal Housing Policies? The Brookings Institution. 1972. Fisher, Robert. Twenty Years of Public Housing. Harper and Brothers. 1959. Friedman, Lawrence M. Government and Slum Housing: A Century of Frustration (1968) Hirsch, Arnold Richard. The Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960 Cambridge University Press 1983. Huthmacher, J. Joseph. Senator Robert F. Wagner and the Rise of Urban Liberalism (1968) Moore, William. The Vertical Ghetto. Random House. 1969. Rainwater, Lee. Behind Ghetto Walls: Black Family Life in a Federal Slum. Aldine. 1970 External link Government agencies established in 1937 1947 disestablishments in the United States New Deal agencies Public housing in the United States 1937 establishments in the United States