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7 unusual facts about National Housing Act


Condominium

Section 234 of the 1961 National Housing Act allowed the Federal Housing Administration to insure mortgages on condominiums, leading to a vast increase in the funds available for condominiums, and to condominium laws in every state by 1969.

FHA insured loan

The new law made a variety of changes in FHA activities, although it did not involve (as had been proposed) a complete rewriting and consolidation of the National Housing Act.

National Housing Act

Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965, part of President Lyndon B. Johnson's "Great Society" program, which provided a national system of rent subsidies in the United States

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Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, a United States law which created Ginnie Mae out of Fannie Mae

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Housing Act of 1949, a major post-World War II national housing policy enacted in the United States

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National Housing Act of 1934, the first significant federal housing legislation enacted in the United States

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Housing Act of 1937, also known as the Wagner-Steagall Act, which subsidized public housing in the United States



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