Housing Act of 1949

Examples of Housing Act of 1949 in the following topics:

• The Potential of Urban Revitalization

  • This shift is part of a large redevelopment plan that seeks to eradicate crime-ridden neighborhoods such as the Cabrini Green Housing Project.
  • Title I of the Housing Act of 1949 kick-started the urban renewal program that would reshape American cities.
  • The Act provided federal funding to cities to cover the cost of acquiring declining areas of cities perceived to be slums.
  • According to the act, the federal government paid two-thirds of the cost of acquiring the site, called "the write down," while the local governments paid for the remaining one-third.
  • Examine the postwar development of urban revitalization, specifically related to Title I of the Housing Act of 1949

• The Truman Presidency

  • Truman oversaw the Berlin Airlift of 1948, which was one of his greatest foreign policy successes, and the creation of NATO in 1949.
  • Cold War strategy, Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947, which reorganized the military, and also created the CIA and the National Security Council.
  • The president was faced with the reawakening of labor-management conflicts that had lain dormant during the war years, severe shortages in housing and consumer products, and widespread dissatisfaction with inflation, which at one point hit 6% in a single month.
  • As he readied for the 1948 election, Truman made clear his identity as a Democrat in the New Deal tradition, advocating national health insurance and the repeal of the Taft–Hartley Act.
  • Only one of the major Fair Deal bills, the Housing Act of 1949, was ever enacted.

• Partisan Cooperation and Conflict

  • For example, although Truman vetoed it, the Taft-Hartley Act significantly curtailed the power of the labor unions.
  • This Act prohibits unfair practices by labor unions.
  • The parties did cooperate on some issues; Congress passed the Presidential Succession Act of 1947, making the Speaker of the House rather than the Secretary of State next in line to the presidency after the vice president.
  • Only one of the major Fair Deal bills, the Housing Act of 1949, was ever enacted.
  • Cold War strategy, Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947, which reorganized military forces by merging the Department of War and the Department of the Navy into the National Military Establishment (later the Department of Defense) and creating the U.S.

• The Fair Deal

  • Truman's ambitious set of proposals to Congress that he introduced in his January 1949 State of the Union address.
  • The most important proposals of the Fair Deal were aid to education, universal health insurance, legislation on fair employment and repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act.
  • Taft under the 1949 National Housing Act, which funded slum clearance and the construction of 810,000 units of low-income housing over a period of six years.
  • Bill, which subsidized the businesses, training, education, and housing of millions of returning veterans.
  • Except for nondiscrimination provisions of the Housing Act of 1949, Truman had to be content with civil rights' gains achieved by executive order or through the federal courts.

• National Security

  • This was later changed in the amendment to the act in 1949, creating what was to be the Department of Defense.
  • The Act merged the Department of War and the Department of the Navy into the National Military Establishment, headed by the Secretary of Defense.
  • Initially, each of the three service secretaries maintained quasi-cabinet status, but the act was amended on August 10, 1949, to assure their subordination to the Secretary of Defense.
  • Similarly, the Joint Chiefs of Staff was officially established under the original National Security Act of 1947.
  • The White House suggested that the $10 billion, five-year program could allow the evacuation of targeted urban centers to rural "host areas" and thus save 80% of the population.

• Privacy Rights and National Security

  • Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947 on July 26, 1947.
  • Together with its 1949 amendment, this act stood as the precursor to the Department of Defense.
  • The Act did not define national security.
  • National Security Act of 1947 was set up to advise the President on the integration of domestic, military and foreign policies relating to national security.
  • Senator Arlen Specter after signing H.R. 3199, the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 in the East Room of the White House

• Peacetime Politics

  • Truman oversaw the Berlin Airlift of 1948 and the creation of North Atlantic Treat Organization (NATO) in 1949.
  • His proposal passed the House of Representatives, but failed in the Senate.
  • The Republican Congress significantly curtailed the power of labor unions by the Taft–Hartley Act, which was enacted over Truman's veto.
  • The parties did cooperate on some issues; Congress passed the Presidential Succession Act of 1947, making the Speaker of the House rather than the Secretary of State next in line to the presidency after the vice president.
  • Bill, which subsidized the businesses, training, education, and housing of millions of returning veterans.

• Housing Policy

  • In 1937, the Wagner-Stegall Housing Act established the United States Housing Authority Housing Act (USHA) of 1937.
  • One of the most unique U.S. public housing initiatives was the development of subsidized middle-class housing during the late New Deal (1940–42) under the auspices of the Mutual Ownership Defense Housing Division of the Federal Works Agency under the direction of Colonel Lawrence Westbrook.
  • The Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 created the Section 8 Housing Program to encourage the private sector to construct affordable homes.
  • They are intended to increase the availability of affordable housing and improve the quality of low-income housing, while avoiding problems associated with concentrated subsidized housing.
  • Where to construct these housing units and how to gain the support of the community are issues of concern when it comes to public housing.

• Conference Committee

  • The conference committee is usually composed of the senior members of the standing committees of each house that originally considered the legislation.
  • The two houses can reach that identical product through the process of amendments between Houses, where the House passes the Senate bill with a House amendment, or vice versa.
  • Each house determines the number of conferees from its house.
  • In such a case, the rules of each house provide that a Member may object through a point of order, although each house has procedures under which it can vote to waive the point of order.
  • But once the first house has passed the conference report, the conference committee is dissolved and the second house to act can no longer recommit the bill to conference.

• The Acts of Parliament

  • The Quartering Acts ordered the local governments of the American colonies to provide housing and provisions for British soldiers.
  • Two 18th-century acts of the Parliament of Great Britain, known together as the Quartering Acts, ordered the local governments of the American colonies to provide housing and provisions for British soldiers.
  • This first Quartering Act was given royal assent in March of 1765 and provided that Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses, as by the Mutiny Act of 1765.
  • However, if soldiers outnumbered the housing available, they would be quartered "in inns, livery stables, ale houses, victualing houses, and the houses of sellers of wine and houses of persons selling of rum, brandy, strong water, cider, or metheglin."
  • The new act also required that the housing of troops be a mutual agreement between the parties involved.