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Title	War housing in the United States [electronic resource].
Item Number	n0017
Creator (Corporate)	United States. National Housing Agency. United States. Federal Home Loan Bank Administration. United States. Federal Housing Administration. United States. Federal Public Housing Authority.
Contributors	Blandford, John B.; Fahey, John H. ; Ferguson, Abner H. ; Klutznick, Philip M., 1907-
Government Publisher	National Housing Agency; U.S. Government Printing Office
Original Date	1945
Physical Description	36 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes	Title from cover.; National Housing Agency, John B. Blandford, Jr., Administrator; Federal Home Loan Bank Administration, John H. Fahey, Commissioner; Federal Housing Administration, Abner H. Ferguson, Commissioner; Federal Public Housing Authority, Philip M. Klutznick, Commissioner--p. [2].; Prepared for use at the conference of the United Nations in San Francisco, California, April 1945.--cover.
Table of Contents	The war housing job -- An epic migration -- How housing was drafted for war -- Stories of war towns, coast to coast -- Housing takes to the road -- Shifting needs and problems -- The war job, and the job ahead.
Summary	War housing has been built in a thousand places, in cities, towns, and at crossroads...on plains and in swamps, valleys, and mountain ranges. It has been built wherever it was essential to the production of weapons of war... It was built to cope with the greatest voluntary migration of freemen and free women in history...--Cover.
Meeting Names	United Nations Conference on International Organization (1945: San Francisco, Calif.)
Topical Terms	World War, 1939-1945--United States. World War, 1939-1945--Engineering and construction. World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--United States. Housing--Effect of wars on Housing policy--United States. Public housing--United States.
Gov Doc Classification	NHA 1.2:W 19/7
Type	Text
Digital Format	.pdf
Digital Publication Date	Available in digital format: 2001-2002
Digitization Process	Scanned as 300 dpi .jpg; converted to Adobe .pdf
SMU File Name	n0017.pdf
Digital Collection	Historic Government Publications from World War II
Library	Government Information Resources
Publisher	Central University Libraries, Southern Methodist University
Rights	These files may be freely used. A high-quality version of these files may be obtained for a fee by contacting ncds@smu.edu.

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