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History Matters: "The Ruins of Their Postwar Dream Homes"
Read testimony before Congress advocating for passage of the Housing Act of 1949 which would increase the availability of public housing after World War II in order to ease the shortage of housing, which drove up rents.
University of Virginia
Miller Center at Uva: Truman Announces Fair Deal Program January 5, 1949
President Harry S. Truman presented his ideas for a Fair Deal in his State of the Union address in 1949. Read about his plans for extending the progressive legislation that had its start in Roosevelt's New Deal. Find out what passed,...
American Presidency Project
American Presidency Project: Signing the Housing Act of 1949
President Truman issued a statement upon his signing of the Housing Act of 1949 supporting the act and explaining its importance to the peacetime economy.
University of Richmond
Digital Scholarship Lab: American Panorama: Renewing Inequality
For a quarter-century, the federal government provided funding for cities large and small to raze "blighted" or "slum" neighborhoods. Through these programs, cities displaced hundreds of thousands of families from their homes and...
US House of Representatives
History, Art, and Archives: President Harry Truman's Fair Deal Proposal
In President Truman's State of the Union message to Congress in 1949, he outlined his Fair Deal policy. Read about what he had in mind, and find out what was passed into law.
Other
Biographies: Harry S. Truman
This brief, but comprehensive look at the Truman administration covers Truman's actions from the time he took office upon the death of Franklin Roosevelt to his decision not to run in the election of 1952.