When the US government built beautiful homes for working-class Americans to deal with a housing shortage

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://theconversation.com/believe-it-or-not-there-was-a-time-when-the-us-government-built-beautiful-homes-for-working-class-americans-to-deal-with-a-housing-shortage-253512

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 just two years.

These weren’t hastily erected barracks or rows of identical homes. They were thoughtfully designed neighborhoods, complete with parks, schools, shops and sewer systems.

In just two years, this federal initiative provided housing for almost 100,000 people.

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Its architects, planners and engineers aimed to create communities that were not only functional but also livable and beautiful. They drew heavily from Britain’s late-19th century Garden City movement, a planning philosophy that emphasized low-density housing, the integration of open spaces and a balance between built and natural environments.

[1WorldHope]

1. I did not know that.

Look how great we used to be.
Could this be what _______has been meaning all along?

[Cheezoholic]

2. I live in a house that was built by the Govt. in 1943 for local returning WWII Vets. There were 10 built on 3 acre lots

out in the country here and they came with small barns and some basic equipment to farm the acreage. Many who went off to war and grew up on farms didn't have one to come home to so these were for them. They built about 3x's as many 2 miles away in town. My little 900 sq footer on 5 acres is the only one left out of all built around here and in town.

[Permanut]

5. Still lots of them around the Portland Oregon area..

Kaiser Shipyards had employed thousands to build "Liberty Ships".

[drray23]

3. There is one not far from where I work. Its near the Newport News Shipyard.

It's called Hilton Village. Still there, with beautifully restored/maintained houses from this era. It is a sought after neighborhood located near the James River.

[Solly Mack]

4. K&R

[leftstreet]

6. DURec