Lesson Plan: Examining Housing Policy
Grades 9-12
The role of the federal government in subsidized housing programs began in the 1930s as part of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. In the 1960s, as part of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement, the Department of Housing and Urban Development was created as an Executive Branch agency. Although the agency is funded by the federal government, many of the programs established by H.U.D. are managed and implemented at the state and local levels of government. The large public housing construction projects of the 1940s and 1950s have given way to a more recent emphasis on housing choice vouchers.
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