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Believe it or not, there was a time when the US government built beautiful homes for working-class Americans to deal with a housing crisis

  • Written by Eran Ben-Joseph, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
imageThe U.S. Housing Corporation built nearly 300 homes in Bremerton, Wash., during World War I.National Archives

In 1918, as World War I intensified overseas, the U.S. government embarked on a radical experiment: It quietly became the nation’s largest housing developer, designing and constructing more than 80 new communities across 26 states in...

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